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a feat of exploration that would win him the Patron’s Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.
Wade Davis • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an enormou
... See moreHampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
