Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea named for the radio message he sent to the Chief of Naval Operations to announce that "Nautilus" had reached the pole. His second book about these missions, "The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission" (with Don Keith), was completed shortly before Anderson's death. This second book includes many previously classified details. On March 17, 1959, the nuclear submarine , under the command of Commander (later Vice Admiral) James F. Calvert, became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert
The Purchase of the North Pole The Purchase of the North Pole The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy () is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889. It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in "From the Earth to the Moon", and later in "Around the Moon", featuring the same characters but set twenty years later. Like some other books of his later years, in this novel Verne tempers his love of science and engineering with a good dose of irony about their potential for harmful abuse and the fallibility of human endeavors. In the