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Fergus Fleming was born in 1959 and studied at OxfordUniversity and CityUniversity.

Fergus Fleming was born in 1959 and studied at OxfordUniversity and CityUniversity. His books include Barrow's Boys, Ninety Degrees North, The Sword and the Cross, and Killing Dragons, which was a New York Times Notable Book.

Ninety degrees north. The Quest for the North Pole.

In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Fergus Fleming's book is a vivid, witty history of the disasters that ensued

In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the icy wastes failed or died. Fergus Fleming's book is a vivid, witty history of the disasters that ensued. The new explorers included Elisha Kane, a sickly man and useless commander, who led his team close to death in 1854, and Charles Hall, a printer from Ohio. Hall made the mistake of taking an experienced crew, who refused to commit suicide for him. Their mutiny so enraged Hall that he died of a stroke, and some of his crew escaped south on an ice floe.

Just as Mars is now- the North Pole was a mystery for the 19th Century explorer

Just as Mars is now- the North Pole was a mystery for the 19th Century explorer. This book picks up where the Barrow's Boys leaves off. It introduces you to some ice-clumped lunatics and some heros and heroines of the Northern arena.

In Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, Fergus Fleming reveals that the .

In Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, Fergus Fleming reveals that the early Arctic explorers were as unrelenting as the snow. Robert Macfarlane finds the historian of exploration at the top of his game. For his second and equally popular book, Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, Fleming ransacked the annals of mountaineering, which furnished him with more tales of stiff-upper-lippism in extreme environments. Ninety Degrees North takes up more or less where Barrow's Boys left off, though it restricts itself to the greatest blank on the map: the Arctic.

Ninety Degrees North book. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Po Fergus Fleming's captivating histories have taken us to the Alps, to the high seas, and to the heights of human endeavor

Ninety Degrees North book. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Po Fergus Fleming's captivating histories have taken us to the Alps, to the high seas, and to the heights of human endeavor. Now the acclaimed author of Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons - a New York Times Notable Book - relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant.

In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Ninety Degrees North : The Quest for the North Pole.

Ninety Degrees North : The Quest for the North Pole.

Attaining 90 degrees North, the North Pole, has been a quest from around the 16th century to the present. Fergus Fleming's rip-roaring book recounts the efforts made from the mid-19th century to the present, in a wonderfully readable and entertaining style. Whether by sea, sledge or air, and attempted by British, American, German, Austro-Hungarian or Norwegian explorers, the details of each campaign reveal new insights into the arctic environment and human endurance.

The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe?

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