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Abandoned
Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884 | A. L. Todd
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Alden L. Todd�s Abandoned has been called �A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration....� Working extensively with primary sources�official correspondence, (…more)
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I love a good non-fiction survival story, and this book was no exception. A.H. Greely took a crew of 25 men to explore the northernmost points of the Arctic in 1885. Due to a series of unfortunate events, they were left stranded there and were unable to be rescued for 2 years, at which point there were only 7 survivors. During that 2 years period when they were literally starving to death, did some of the men resort to cannibalism? Maybe. . .

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Let‘s get back to failed Arctic expeditions.

This is easily the weirdest reading kick I‘ve ever been on.

LauraJ Embrace the weirdness! 6y
Geeklet @LauraJ Heck yeah! Plus if anyone ever randomly needs to know something about the Arctic, I probably can answer their question now. 6y
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