6/19/2023 0 Comments Hellhound on his trail review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that a bad outcome is promised in the book’s subtitle, readers should not find such things too surprising. ![]() No such luck: As Sides documents, the Jeannette and its crew met a gruesome end toward the end of his narrative, we tour their icy cemetery, here the Chinese cook gazing serenely into the sky, there De Long lying barehanded with arm upraised, as if he “had raised his left arm and flung his journal behind him in the snow, away from the embers of the fire.” When contemporaries took that tour and reports came out, the newspapers were full of speculation about even more gruesome possibilities, which Sides, on considering the evidence, dismisses. When the Jeannette, commanded by a dashing officer named George De Long, disappeared in the Arctic waters of Russia on a long expeditionary voyage that began in the summer of 1879, American newspapers thought it did not necessarily mean disaster: They preferred to see it as a sign that the ship had broken through the dreaded polar ice and was now sailing freely, if without communication, in the open polar sea. and the International Hunt for His Assassin, 2010, etc.), this one focusing on a frigid disaster nearly 150 years ago. Another crackling tale of adventure from journalist/explorer Sides ( Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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