Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer AUTH-4003437 Through lively

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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer AUTH-4003437 Through livelyIn 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