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Farthest North

by Charles Lanman

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James Booth Lockwood served as an army officer in Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas and the Indian Territory before volunteering for the Greely expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. Drawing on his journals, Charles Lanman follows his sledge journey up the Greenland coast to a new farthest north in 1882 and the terrible ordeal that followed.

A moving record of courage in one of the most tragic Arctic expeditions. Download the free EPUB.

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