Download or read book The Frozen Zone and its Explorers written by Alexander Hyde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This American account of one thousand years of exploration in the Arctic was published in 1874. It remains a readable synthesis, which ends with an appeal to the British Admiralty to resume the work of polar exploration which had gone into decline after the end of the search for Franklin.