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From Publishers Weekly
During the first U.S. attempt to reach the North Pole, the doomed 1871 Polaris expedition’s team leader, Charles Francis Hall, mysteriously died. In this book, Parry, a novelist (That Fateful Lightning, etc.), provides a vivid but uneven account of the captain’s death, which may have been brought on by a muddled command structure that encouraged insubordination, even mutiny, among the crew. Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hall’s “mu… Buy Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition at Amazon