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In the Kingdom of Ice

An Evening With Award-Winning Author Hampton Sides

In the late 19th century, people were obsessed by "Arctic Fever". No one knew exactly what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans but it was crystal clear that glory would be bestowed on the country whose flag was first planted at the North Pole.
Stupendously wealthy James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald had recently dispatched Stanley to find Livingston. Now, keen to capture world attention on an even grander scale, Bennett funded an official U.S. naval expedition to the Pole and on July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and 32 men set sail from San Francisco aboard the U. S. S. Jeannette.
Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached and the Jeannette sank to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. Marooned, nearly a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest of supplies, the men battled furious storms, madness and starvation on their treacherous march across the frozen sea. Their story ranks as one of the greatest struggles for survival in modern history.

Hampton Sides is best known for gripping adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of discovery and exploration Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder and Hell Hound on His Trail. He is an editor-at-large at Outside magazine and a frequent contributor to National Geographic. A native of Memphis, and a graduate of Yale, Hampton is the 2015 Miller Distinguished Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.

WHEN:Thursday, March 12, 2015, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
WHERE:La Mariposa, 1501 N Houghton Rd.
COST:$35 ($25 is tax deductible)
ENJOY: Wine and Hors d'oeuvres
WIN:Gift Card from Frost
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Pima Library Foundation
PO Box 13245, Tucson, AZ 85732

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