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The Ice Desert: A Sequel to The English at the North Pole (Classic Reprint)
The Ice Desert A Sequel to The English at the North Pole - Classic Reprint Author:Jules Verne CHAPTER L THE DOCTon's lNVENTORY. CAPTAIN IIATTERAS'S design was a bold one; he had meant that Ellgland should have the glory of the discovery of the world's boreal Pole. lIe had done all that human power could do. After having struggled for riine months with currents and tempests; after breaking up icebergs and getting through ice-banks in the ... more »most terrible winter ever experienced in these hyperhorean latitudes; after having confirmed the discoveries of his predecessors, and taken his brig, the I~'orwan], on beyond the known seas-in short, after having accomplished half his task, he saw his great scheme crushed! The treason, or rather the discouragement, of his crew, worn by their trials and the criminal folly of their leaders, left him in a frightful position; out of eighteen men only four remained, and these four vere abandoned without supplies, without a ship, at more than 2,500 miles from their country! The explosion of the Forward, which had just taken pl
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