Henderson, Bruce. Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole. New York: New American Library, 2001.
1870-73 US North Pole Expedition of Charles Hall (aboard USS Polaris).
Arctic Reading: United States
Preview
A mediocre recounting of the Polaris expedition, the poisoning of Captain Hall, the Tyson trip on the ice floe. Nothing about reading except one note on the presence of books.
