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The Desert of Ice: Or, the Further Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Classic Reprint)
The Desert of Ice Or the Further Adventures of Captain Hatteras - Classic Reprint Author:Jules Verne THE DESERT OF ICE. CHAPTER I. the doctor's inventory. The design which Captain Hattcras had formed of exploring the North, and of giving England the honor of discovering the Pole, was certainly a bold one. This hardy sailor had just done all that human skill could do. After struggling for nine months against contrary winds and seas, after destro... more »ying icebergs and ice-fields, after enduring the severity of an unprcccdcutcdly cold winter, after going over all that his predecessors had done, after carrying the Forward beyond the seas which were already known, in short, after completing half his task, he saw his grand plans completely overthrown. The treachery, or rather the demoralization of his wearied crew, the criminal folly of some of the ringleaders, left him in a terrible situation ; of the eighteen men who had sailed in the brig, four were left, abandoned without supplies, without a boat, more than twenty-five hundred miles from home ! The explosion of the Forward, which had j
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