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"Compulsively readable" -San Francisco Examiner
It began as President Ulysses S. Grants bid for international glory after the Civil War Americas first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Halls death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, the ships evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by thirty-three men, women and children, stranded on the polar ice and two dramatic rescues by whaling ships. When news of the disastrous expedition and accusations of murder reached Washington D.C., it led to a nationwide scandal, an official investigation, and a government cover-up.
The mystery of the captains death remained unsolved for nearly 100 years. But when Charles Halls frozen grave in northern Greenland was opened, and hair and fingernail samples were retrieved, forensic scientists were finally able to reach a shocking conclusion.