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The Franz Josef Land Archipelago: E.B. Baldwin’s Journal of the Wellman ... - E.B. Baldwin - Google Books
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Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today. A few…
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The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef ... - P. J. Capelotti - Google Books
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In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian…