Alden L. Todd's Abandoned has been called "A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration...." Working extensively with primary sources—official correspondence, diaries, letters, notes by the expedition's participants and those left at home and in the nation's capital—Alden Todd presents an evenhanded, elegantly written account of the greatest tragedy in the history of American arctic exploration: the Gree...

As the debate droned on in Congress about whether to spend money on a rescue team for Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and the other men of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic, the explorers were dying one by one from the cold and lack of supplies. Henrietta Greely was determined that if the U.S. government would not act, she would find a way to rescue her husband. Here, in this essay by A. L. Todd, is their dramatic story.