Great Battles of the Civil War An Illustrated History of Courage Under Fire Book

Ok, while not strictly an arctic book, this story that traces three expeditions to the interior of Labrador in 1903 and 1905 had a lot of the same tropes - inexperience, mistakes, starvation. This book drew heavily on diaries of several participants, contemporary newspaper clippings, and other research to document the whole fascinating story. There's the interplay of racial politics at the time, a woman trekking over rough ground and unknown country with mixed-race male guides (scandal!), a possible love story, oh, and people going through stuff that was not mapped. Highly, highly recommended.