Host joining us on booktv as part of our preview of some of the books coming out in 2014 is a familiar face and name to booktv viewers. Hampton sides. Mr. Sites you write about a lot of different topics. How do you pick your topics . Guest i think i have a case of historical add. I jump around in different time periods. Its all American History but you know i am done with world war ii and i have moved on to manifest destiny and the American West or the assassination of Martin Luther king. This particular story thats coming out is about early american exploration into the arctic that is pretty of skier now and it is not extremely wellknown in his time but not wellknown now. How i picked these topics is mainly im looking for great characters and a great story. This one kind of had all the elements. I knew as soon as they ran into the story of the uss jeannette this was a good fit for me. I spent three and a half years doing the research for the book going to the Russian Arctic following
Could be, like i said, feedback from the retailers, or, or theres another cover out that has the exact same photograph, or very similar. We didnt realize. That we need to change. Starting now on booktv, Hampton Sides recounsels a u. S. Naval expedition to the north pole in 1879. The journey februariess by James Gordon Bennett and led by George Washington delong, began in San Francisco, july 8, 1879. The crew sailed for two years behalf breach of the ships hull, which left them abandoned a thousand miles north of siberia and forced to trek back to civilization. This is an hour. Good evening. Im bradley graham, the coown over politics and prose, along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff, thank you very much for coming out on this somewhat damp august evening. Just a few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might beep during the presentation. When we get to the qs and as later in the program there is a micropho
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Plenty of polar expeditions ended in disaster, but the USS Polaris is a strange one. Launched in 1871, it was the first mission to the North Pole to be