BOOK WORLD; Frozen in Time: The Greely Arctic Expedition From: The Washington Post | Date: March 6, 2000| Author: Tom Chaffin | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

GHOSTS OF CAPE SABINE

The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

By Leonard F. Guttridge

Putnam. 354 pp. $27.95

In 1881, 1st Lt. Adolphus Washington Greely led a U.S. Army Signal Corps expedition into the Arctic. Reaching latitude 83 degrees 24 minutes on the north coast of Greenland, the men overturned a "farthest north" mark set by the British a half decade earlier. The feat interrupted 300 years of British record-setting in the northern polar regions. More...

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