In the Kingdom of Ice

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 heard about it

• The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025).

Connections

• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• History · Discovery · Wilderness — where this sits in the corpus.