Arctic Explorer Mystery

Bibliography

Books
Life Among the Esquimaux, Charles Francis Hall, Harpers, 1865.
Arctic Experiences, George Tyson, Harpers, 1874.
The Polar Passion, Farley Mowat, Gibbs Smith, 1967.
Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer, Chauncey Loomis, Knopf, 1971.
The Arctic Grail, Pierre Berton, Viking, 1988.
Farthest North: The Quest for the North Pole, Clive Holland, Robinson, 1994.
Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole, Bruce Henderson, Signet, 2001.
Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition, Richard Parry, Ballantine, 2001.
Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition, Sheila Nickerson, Tarcher, 2002.

Periodical
Charles Francis Hall, by Jonathan M. Karpoff, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Oct. 28, 2001

Worldwide Web
www.canadiana.org, an archive of Canadian history, contains photocopied pages from many of Charles Francis Halls early journals.

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1. The Top of the World
2. A Final Journey
3. An Arctic Obsession
4. Assembling a Crew
5. German Insubordination
6. A Doomed Mission
7. 1,800 Miles On Ice
8. A Naval Inquiry
9. Only One Perished
10. Dr. Bessels Speaks
11. Arsenic and Old Ice
12. Motive and Opportunity
13. Bibliography