The Anglo American Polar Expedition National Geographic Magazine Audiobook

The Polaris expedition of 1871–1873 was a United States Government-funded undertaking and one of the first serious attempts to reach the North Pole, after that of British naval officer Sir Edward Parry, who reached 82° 45′ N in 1827. The expedition's notable achievement was reaching 82° 29′ N by ship, a record at the time. The expedition was commanded by the experienced and self-taught Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall, who had previously lived among the Inuit in the Arctic region during his obsessive q