Writing as the pompous explorer Walter E. Traprock, author of The Cruise of the Kawa, Chappell takes his ship north in search of the Pole. The book parodies every convention of the polar narrative, from the solemn foreword by a college dignitary to the dedication to five Eskimos and the doomed, drunken heroics of the crew.
A deadpan 1920s burlesque of exploration literature that still lands its jokes. Download the free EPUB.