Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition ...illustrated in b & w by Nickerson, Sheila - 2002

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: J P Tarcher, 2002. ....Quarter bound in brown cloth with gilt on boards, headband, xvii + 187 pages, green end papers, b & w illustrations and photos, with map, tight clean and square, no names, dust jacket is in NF condition. "The Polaris expedition of 1871 - 1873 was one of the strangest tragedies in the histoy of Arctic exploration. Less than five months after setting out to lead the first official American party to the North Pole, the expedition's leader, Captain Charles Francis Hall, was dead, likely murdered by his crew. The Polaris was locked in ice, nineteen of its crew and pasengers were forced to embark on what would be the longest ice-drift in history. Remarkably, all survived - thanks in large part to the skills of one woman, Tookoolito, Hall's thrity-four-year-old Inuit translateor." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/NF. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.