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"In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm ""Crocker Land."" Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent. Several years later, two of Peary's disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. What followed was a sequence of events that none of the explorers imagined possible. The men endured howling blizzards, food shortages, isolation, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime. Populated with a cast of memorable characters and based on years of research in previously untapped sources, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a classic of Arctic adventure. 16 pages of illustrations"

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The true story of the Crocker Land Expedition to find a new continent northwest of Greenland in the early 20th century. -- What We're Reading - The Independent Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented. -- . - The New York Times Book Review Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was. -- National Geographic

Polar historians will be grateful to have the Crocker Land expedition properly documented. -- . - The New York Times Book Review Unravels the strange story of one of the world's greatest discoveries that never was. -- National Geographic

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David Welky is the author of The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937, The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II, and other books. He is a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas.

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