Deals with Andrée and Walter Wellman and their attempts to reach the North Pole through Danes Island, Spitsbergen. Chapter One is a summary of North Pole attempts.
By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration.
Capelotti, P. J. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
- Arctic Reading: United States
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The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905.
Capelotti, P. J. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
- 1898-1905 US Expeditions to Franz Josef Land (Wellman, Baldwin and Ziegler).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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A lengthy study of three incompetent American attempts on the North Pole from Franz Josef Land. The first left two Norwegians, hired by the American Wellman, isolated at Fort McKinley advised by second-in command Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, for the winter of 1898-99 on poor rations and little fuel for cooking or heat.