In the first decade of the 20th Century, a team of explorers set sail for a recently discovered land mass rising from the Arctic Ocean. This hour, we’ll talk about how the crew endured everything from blizzards to disease to a drunken sea captain with University of Central Arkansas history professor David Welky, author of “A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier” (Norton).
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