{"product_id":"weird-and-tragic-shores-the-story-of-charles-francis-hall-explorer-paperback","title":"Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChauncey C. Loomis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrea Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNinety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a new Introduction by Andrea Barrett, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage of the Narwhal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances. \u003cbr\u003eNinety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature. \u003cbr\u003eWith a new Introduction by Andrea Barrett, author of \"The Voyage of the Narwhal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChauncey Loomis was born in New York in 1930 and studied at Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton (A.B., Ph.D.) and Columbia universities (M.A.). He came to exploration through his interest in photography and has been on three expeditions to the Peruvian Andes and five to the Arctic. He recently retired after teaching English at Dartmouth College for thirty-six years. He lives in Massachusetts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJon Krakauer is the author of \u003ci\u003eInto Thin Air\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and \u003ci\u003eInto the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in many magazines, including \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e. 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