Hampton Sides Collection 2 Books Set (In the Kingdom of Ice & the Wide Wide Sea)

The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown in the image. TIn the Kingdom of Ice The Wide Wide Sea Description: The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the ‘unattainable object of our dreams’, and the urge to fill in this last great blank space on the map grew irresistible. In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and amid a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were destined for the uncharted waters of the Arctic.