Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole | Bruce B. Henderson
An in-depth account of the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole describes a mission that ended in the suspicious death of its leader, Charles Hall, and a desperate struggle for survival on the polar ice, drawing on original Navy inquests into the disaster, autopsy and forensic reports, personal journals, the ship's original log, and more.