Commander Markham of HMS Alert tells the story of the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 under George Nares, which pushed farther north through the channels west of Greenland than any ship before it. He describes the long dark winter in the ice, Christmas aboard, and the punishing sledge journey toward the Pole in which scurvy struck the men.
A first-hand account of one of the great Victorian attempts on the North Pole. Download the free EPUB.