In the Lena Delta : A Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander De Long and his Companions, Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108041736
ISBN-13
9781108041737
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2011
Print length
546 Pages
Weight
702 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 3.50 cms
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Historical geographyHistorical geographyExpeditionsExpeditions: popular accounts
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Published in Britain in 1885, this is an account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions by American sailor and engineer George W. Melville (1841–1912). Journeying over a thousand miles across Siberia, Melville overcame the deadly hardships of an Arctic winter in a vain search for stranded survivors.
George W. Melville (1841–1912) was a member of an 1879 American Arctic expedition seeking a northern passage from the Bering Strait to the Atlantic. Its ship was trapped in ice for nearly two years, and was eventually crushed and sank. The crew, stranded in three small boats, were left with few provisions and little hope of rescue. Melville was the only boat commander to bring his men to safety, assuming leadership of the survivors after landing in Siberia in 1881. He returned to search for other survivors, trekking over a thousand miles, but found only the bodies of his former companions in a frozen campsite, from which, however, he recovered the expedition's records. This account also includes details of Melville's role in the Greely Relief Expedition of 1884, from which he returned shortly before the book's British publication in 1885, and a detailed proposal for reaching the North Pole.
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