Entries from the journals of two of the rescuers and photographs taken by the third key member of the unlikely expedition dramatically document every mile of their heroic, unprecedented journey. With their own survival in the balance, these men battled raging storms, killing cold, injured sled dogs, and their own will to continue, to bring relief to the stranded whale men. Their mission was to drive two herds of reindeer the distance to feed the starving men.

In 2014 his title, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese. In 2014 his title, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World. Martin Sandler tells the incredible true adventure story of three men who were ordered by President McKinley to carry out an overland rescue that covered 1,500 miles of treacherous Alaskan terrain in the dead of winter. Martin Sandler has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College. Sandler presents the American people at their best. With limited provisions on board the ships that hadn’t been crushed by the ice, there was little hope that these men could survive until warmer temperatures arrived at least 10 months later. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope of escape.

In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897.

Imprisoned by Martin W. Sandler