The Arctic Grail
Subtitle: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780385658454
First sentence: In the published memoirs of that stubborn and often maddening Arctic explorer Sir John Ross, there is a remarkable illustration of an encounter that took place on August 10, 1818, between two British naval officers and a band of Greenland Eskimos.