Kyle Harrison
to-read
In the Kingdom of Ice
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Author
- Hampton Sides
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 488
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: The 1879 Jeannette expedition, sent north on a newspaper publisher’s money and a wrong theory of an open polar sea, and what happened when the ship was crushed.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- History · Discovery · Wilderness — where this sits in the corpus.