A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier by David Welky

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

David Welky

528 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced
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From a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory “Crocker Land.” Years later, two of Pe...

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