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The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure
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The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure (2012) (edit title/settings)

by Martin W. Sandler (Author) (edit contributors)

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Martin W. Sandler has written more than seventy books for children and adults and has written and produced seven television series. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and has won multiple Emmy Awards. He lives in Massachusetts.

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Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whaleships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whaleships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope of escape. With limited provisions on board the ships that hadn't been crushed by the ice, there was little hope that these men could survive until warmer temperatures arrived at least ten months later.

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  • “Any Arctic whaleman will tell you that when a man goes into the Arctic he is a total stranger to conditions every year....”
    a whaler
  • “As Jarvis had left me without a thermometer, I had nothing but my feelings to give me any idea of the degree of cold.”
    Bertholf
  • “For on such a night familiar echoes come easily to the ear of memory; ghostly sounds which, nevertheless, will always typify the Arctic to me.”
    Brower

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The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the world's most amazing adventures, a saga based on arguably the most daring rescue plan ever devised.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Stranded
Chapter 2: An Audacious Plan
Chapter 3: The Long Trek Begins
Chapter 4: An Extraordinary Encounter
Chapter 5: Blizzards, Reindeer, and Near Disaster
Chapter 6: A Desperate Request
Chapter 7: Another Agonizing Decision
Chapter 8: Bertholf Battles the Odds
Chapter 9: A Hazardous Crossing
Chapter 10: Dire News of the Whalers
Chapter 11: Contact
Chapter 12 Jarvis Takes Charge
Chapter 13 Voyage Against Time
Epilogue
What Happened to Them
Source Notes
Bibliography
Photography Credits
Index
Acknowledgments

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  1. Martin W. Sandler (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780763650803
Page Count: 163

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