It seems like one of the great stages for competition is Arctic exploration. . the reader to a world where opposites—passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice—clash and converge.A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she ... From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds ... From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds In the hands of Hampton Sides, it is impossible to put down, packed with irresistible characters and incredible moments of horror and heroism. All works of history should be half this much fun.\" — Scott Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia \"Hampton Sides has written an arctic thriller, an authentic narrative masterpiece that I put down only reluctantly and willingly gave up sleep in order to finish. H: Right! He was the youngest commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Who are these bedraggled, furry, sour-smelling and very, at this point, emaciated, starving guys? These logbooks are in the National Archives, and there they are. Here is a vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.\"— T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt \"Hampton Sides is one of America's most expansive and engaging storytellers, and he proves it again with the incredible saga of the USS Jeannette. ... Harley-Davidson bikers . He was really into the spectacle of sport, and I think he viewed this Arctic expedition that he funded, the Jeannette, as just another sport, in a sense. What do you think drove that obsessive quality? The Ice Kingdom's land is mostly snowy, icy, cold tundra, with multiple glaciers adding to the overall shape of the kingdom. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. I quote someone in the book saying that it's like a man has to know every room of his house, and if there's a room in the attic that you can't get to, it will drive him mad. ★ 2014-06-05Another crackling tale of adventure from journalist/explorer Sides (Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin, 2010, etc. in Books , General , Nonfiction , Reading , Reading Challenge , Reviews . Never underestimate the ingenuity of a first-rate author. It's a pure historical narrative. Another aspect of it is that Manifest Destiny and the push west had more or less come to an end. HS: Yes. The story of the Jeannette ends up very much being a Russian story in the last third. They are two good friends of mine and honestly 2 of the best writers I have ever seen. "—USA Today“[Sides] brings vividness to In the Kingdom of Ice, and in the tragedy of the Jeannette he’s found a story that epitomizes both the heroism and the ghastly expense of life that characterized the entire Arctic enterprise…With an eye for the telling detail, he sketches the crew members as individuals…The bare facts of what happened to the Jeannette’s crew are easily Googleable, but if you don’t already know the story, In the Kingdom of Ice reads like a first-class epic thriller. "What's up there?" I spent three and a half years on this book. There are some reindeer. He was just off by 140 years. Given that a bad outcome is promised in the book's subtitle, readers should not find such things too surprising. The life of the explorer and the man, James Gordon Bennett, who paid for and sponsored this expedition. . This is a compelling story of love, lies, drugs, paranoia, depression and eventually violence. The threat of cold, hunger and disease — scurvy and the like — was just as problematic for them getting through a winter there as for the sailors. The film's hero, Balian (a disastrously miscast Orlando Bloom), is a composite of two real-life brothers, Balian and Baldwin of Ibelin. Is that right? Backed by the vast wealth of newspaper magnate James Gordon Bennett, De Long's voyage aboard the USS Jeannette ground to a grim halt when the vessel became trapped in the ice for two interminable years and later sank. Icebergs, ice sheets, and ice floes litter the sea around the kingdom. For years and years, I was an editor at Outside magazine, and I also write fairly often for National Geographic, so I'm already kind of in this world of exploration and expeditions, and there's something about the Gilded Age that fascinates me as a period. The author sat down with the Barnes & Noble Review to talk about the Jeannette, Gilded Age fascination with the Arctic, and the surprising relevance its discoveries have for scientists today. . Sides’ book is a masterful work of history and storytelling.”—The Los Angeles Times“America’s own brush with epic polar tragedy, the subject of Hampton Sides’ phenomenally gripping new book, is a less well-known affair…What ensued — a struggle to survive and a nearly 1,000-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean and into the vastness of Siberia — stands as one of the most perilous journeys ever. BNR: Wrangel Island is a fascinating place, especially biologically. (Aug.), 06/15/2014In 1879, U.S. naval officer and explorer George W. De Long (1844–81) set off on a highly publicized attempt to reach the uncharted and mysterious North Pole. . In a way, as a writer you want things to go wrong, because that's when things get interesting, but unfortunately, these tales when no one survives are difficult because there are no documents. As the drama escalates—on ice, sea, and land—the characters of these men and their extraordinary, gallant leader loom larger and larger. It was believed that a rim of ice circled the top of the globe that, once broken, lead to an warmer “open polar sea.’” The North Pole would then be easy sailing. I'd never heard of it. novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness—Alaska.Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. BNR: DeLong was the captain of the Jeannette. HS: Very little. There's an international balloon race that still exists to this day called the Gordon Bennett Cup. I stuck by with Longclaw's phenomenally epic story "An Empire of Ice and Fire" since he began 2 years ago. BNR: He kidnaps the cast of a play. The Grand and Terrible Voyage of the USS Jeannette, as told by Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers. Seeking to reproduce the sensational press triumph of that story, Bennett hoped that the Jeannette would discover a new route into a fabled "open polar sea." The early Mercator maps and other maps going way back to the 1500s show this open polar sea. You fly over it for hours and hours and hours, and you see no marking of man. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. on our own. It would be an easier way to cross over from different parts of the world. BNR: So you have a route of egress as well as a route of getting there. Ice King's main living room contains a fancy bed, a drum kit, and weightlifting equipment. Wrangel Island is an extraordinary place. They race-walked ten miles from Manhattan to the Bronx, with all these people sort of surrounding them and all these other bets being laid on their performance, and Bennett beats the other fellow. Now we know that it's just an icecap, and it's shifting endlessly, and there are no civilizations up there, are no holes that lead into the earth. . One of the dangers of this character was that he could upstage the entire Arctic narrative if I wasn't careful. . I had a ball doing it. They encounter this gale, and they get separated, and the three boats have three very different fates. Snow fell from the sky during the harsh cold winter. Save the internet search for after you finish the book, when you'll be dying for just another drop of detail about these large It'll be a terrible injustice (and frankly perplexing) if this book doesn't become one of the big hits of this fall and holiday season. The survivors were expecting to find these villages, and there were no villages. That's just the travel narrative, the survival narrative. with the world around them. Akurians arrive at the crash site and fight with Luke and Leia, but are soon driven away by Colonel Odan piloting his War Sled. . We send one boat, and it gets lost, and then we have to send waves of people to search for the lost vessel. In an age in which the Arctic and Antarctic poles represented the last elements of the unknown, voyages like the one helmed by George Washington DeLong represented the last proving ground for heroism and discovery. This extraordinary book overflows with heroic characters and bursts with insight into a young nation flexing its ambitions on a global scale. . HS: In Amsterdam. And science, to a real degree; this wanting to find out the answer to this scientific question, really an exploration — what's there? The ice shown in the movie is not just any ice.. We were occupying the West and filling it in. BNR: Their background was similar. Did you experience what you expected, or was it very different? Sides has brought together an absolutely marvelous cast of characters -- daring and dangerous and more than a little preposterous -- to tell not just a classic adventure story, but to shine a fine light on that bizarre American era known as the Gilded Age. Wrangel Island . But there is also beauty here… [Sides] writes superbly on the geography of Siberia and the Arctic, and the abundant bird and animal life the explorers encountered on their travels, which took them across ice, storm-tossed seas, treacherous tundra, rocky seacoasts, and volcanic islands.”—The Boston Globe“…harrowing and impeccably paced.” —The New Yorker"A dazzling page-turner.....”—Nathaniel Philbrick, New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Bunker Hill and Sea of Glory“[A] stunningly vivid account.....”—Mark Bowden, New York Times Bestselling author of Black Hawk Down  “An astonishingly good story....”—Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The Destiny of the Republic  and The River of Doubt"Hampton Sides conjures the doomed USS Jeannette and her courageous crew with haunting power...."—Caroline Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The Endurance and The Bounty"A spellbinding tale....”—David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z "Hampton Sides is one of America’s most expansive and engaging storytellers, and he proves it again with the incredible saga of the USS Jeannette...."  —Scott Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia"A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness."—T.J. It's remarkable. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such ... Current price is $14.99, Original price is $17. http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/214368/in-the-kingdom-of-ice/\"Drawing on lost letters and diaries, first-hand experience of the polar landscape, and his own masterful storytelling skills, Hampton Sides conjures the doomed USS Jeannette and her courageous crew with haunting power. And national glory figures into it. You have a natural path back to someplace you can get around from. The map of Pyrrhiashows that there are areas of mountain and boreal forest in the Ice Kingdom, which are also snow-covered. The reader is drawn into the ice from the first page and will not want to leave until the fate of every man is known.\"— Caroline Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The Endurance and The Bounty \"Hampton Sides has written a dazzling page-turner. In fact, there's a museum devoted to his ship, the Fram. But he survived, and he went on to become a national hero in Norway. Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, which recounts the astonishing tribulations of a group of seafarers determined to be the first men to reach and reconnoiter the North Pole, is a splendid book in every way… It would be malicious to ruin the suspense about the fate of the Jeannette’s crew… The book is a marvelous nonfiction thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal"Compelling....Sides spins a propulsive narrative from obscure documents, journals and his own firsthand visits to the Arctic regions visited by the Jeannette and its crew. Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice — The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, (New York, London: Doubleday, 2014). In this case, they got trapped in the ice and drifted for two years deep into the polar cap. But along the way, the Jeannette expedition, as with Stanley, was actually a fairly important exploration as well. Hardcover. The room usually has underpants and old pizza boxes strewn across the floor. The southern land border of the Ice Kingdo… The answer is actually a long and frequently terrifying story of American heroism, brilliantly told by Hampton Sides, entitled In the Kingdom of Ice. Sides works story-telling magic as he evokes the pathos and suffering of what unfolded: De Long and his crew endured hardships that boggle the mind. The native peoples of that region were Christianized, but they'd been largely untouched by cosmopolitan Russian civilization or by other Western cultures. She walked away not knowing who she was, she didn't recognise herself ... From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports ... From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports It's cold and dreary and desolate. N/A Date added 1 week ago played 0 times. Maybe it's the stepping-off point to a real great new frontier. Originally published in 1958, Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's classic and mighty Was there game for them to hunt at all? . ★ 06/23/2014In a masterful retelling, Sides (Hellhound on His Trail) chronicles American naval officer George Washington De Long’s harrowing 1879 expedition to the North Pole, an account as frightening as it is fascinating. He brought, in terms of funding, various cups. Spelling bee prodigies . People wanted to know what was up there. Not only that, but we were competing against the British. I had to find out what happened to these remarkable men in that wide and desolate sea of ice. HS: I really think that it's mostly a matter of luck. HS: Yes, and they ended up having a sweetheart, and fitting in a little better than the others. So in a sense, it was a stunt to sell newspapers. The North Pole, the South Pole, a couple of places in the interior of Africa, and certainly some mountains in the Himalayas, for example. It took a number of years before we were a wealthy enough nation to even contemplate something like this. In the Kingdom of Ice has earned a place among the great sea adventure stories.\" — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Frozen in Time and Lost in Shangri-La. And they made landfall on Wrangel Island and claimed it for the United States. Impeccable writing, a vivid re-creation of the expedition and the Victorian era, and a taut conclusion make this an exciting gem. There's no timber except for driftwood, so it's difficult to keep warm. By. And after the ocean, the storms, the ice closing in, boats being crushed, and a familiar story of desolation and survival in that environment, and then as they're landing on this river delta region in Siberia — it becomes a different kind of survival story. Now NOAA knows about them, and has digitized them all, and these people are studying the Jeannette logbooks because they offer the most pure data about what was the condition of the icecap in the 1880s. The result is narrative nonfiction history at its very best. . HS: A very prominent man. It was released in the United States on September 28, 2007. The Kingdom of Ice is the story of the ill-fated De Long Expedition to the North Pole that was launched with great hope and excitement from San Francisco in 1880. The primary characters heroic characters and bursts with insight into a young nation, itching to our. But in a sense, it 's this unbelievably remote and sparsely populated mature. 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