I had never read a true-crime novel before and I can totally understand now why this genre is so popular; although I think this book goes beyond the calling of a normal crime novel. That's why I don't hesitate to recommend this one: it's not a serial tradeback read-and-throw-away novel, it's an ...
An overview of all the books on the Polaris expedition, sadly filled with speculation and hearsay.Did appreciate the medically-certain facts regarding snow blindness and hypothermia.The story about Buddington becoming violently ill after eating dinner on June 4, 1873, just before the men were res...
In repeated meetings, telephone calls, and e-mail exchanges, they submitted uncomplainingly to interviews that must at times have been unbearably painful. This book could easily have been subtitled The Fate of Carita Ridgway, and I’m sorry that I didn’t have the space to devote more...