Download or read book Ice pack and Tundra An Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey Through Siberia Etc With Illustrations Including Portraits Facsimiles and Maps written by William Henry Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ice pack and Tundra written by William Henry Gilder and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. This book was released on 1883 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of Jeannette Relief Expedition on board USS Rodgers, 1881-82.
Download or read book Icepack and Tundra an Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey Through Siberia by William H Gilder written by William Henry Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ice Pack and Tundra written by William H. Glider and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the great stories of the Age of Exploration and "New York Herald" correspondent, William H. Glider, was not going to miss it. He signed on with the USS Rodgers in 1881 in search of the missing USS Jeannette and her crew in the wastelands of frozen Siberia.But disaster struck the Rodgers and Glider was chosen to march over 2,000 miles to telegraph news of the ship's loss. In thrilling and sometimes horrifying detail, Glider tells of the misery, suffering, and heroism of the Rodgers' crew, his journey to effect a rescue, and the tragic fate of the Jeannette.Glider's keen observations and experience as an explorer and writer lend an exceptional enjoyment to this true tale of adventure.
Download or read book Ice Pack and Tundra An Account of the Search for the Jeannette 1883 written by R. M. Berry and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Lost Explorers written by Raymond Lee Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1879-1881, a crew of thirty-three men, led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong, participated in an Arctic adventure that defines the limits of human endurance. The Navy-operated, but privately owned, steamer Jeannette left San Francisco, California, for the North Pole through what was then believed to be open water beyond the Arctic icepack. The Jeannette remained in the ice as it drifted to the northwest through the first half of 1881. During this time, the crew made scientific observations, hunted seals and polar bears. In May 1881, they landed on Henrietta Island, 600 miles from Wrangell. In June 1881 the ice parted and they hoped they might reach open sea, but on the 12th the flows closed in with such force that Jeannette's hull was crushed. Her crew removed three boats, supplies and some equipment and began a difficult trek, dragging the boats over the ice towards open water. They reached the Kotelnoi and Simonoski Islands in early September, after which the way was clear to sail to the Lena Delta. However, the three boats were separated in a storm. One, commanded by Lieutenant Charles W. Chipp and seven other men, was not seen again. The other two, commanded by DeLong with thirteen others and Chief Engineer George W. Melville with ten others, landed far apart on the delta. Melville's party was saved by local inhabitants. DeLong and his men trudged south over the desolate terrain. After one man died of the effects of frostbite and the others were weakened by exposure and hunger, Seamen Nindemann and Noros were sent ahead to find help. Before that materialized, the remaining eleven succumbed, with DeLong and two others surviving perhaps a few days beyond 30 October 1881, when he made his final journal entry. The bodies of ten were discovered in March 1882, as Melville conducted a search for the other members of the expedition, and were transported back to the United States in early 1884.
Download or read book Ice Pack and Tundra An Account of the Search for the Jeannette Traduction Fran aise de Cet Ouvrage Par J West 1885 written by R. M. Berry and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Kingdom of Ice written by Hampton Sides and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack. Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.
Download or read book Our lost explorers the narrative of the Jeannette Artic Expedition written by Raymond Lee Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Lost Explorers written by George W. Delong and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant George Washington De Long was an American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition gave evidence of a continuous ocean current across the Polar Regions. In July of 1879 he set sail from San Francisco taking the Jeannette through the Bering Strait and heading for Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of Siberia. On September 5th, the ship became trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island (now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel. With crewman George Melville’s engineering skill, the boat was kept afloat for almost two years until it was finally crushed on June 12, 1881. The crew, including De Long, escaped with most of their provisions and three small boats. Their destination, the Siberian coast, lay some 600 miles away. They endured extreme hardships for the next two months as they crossed the ice. After reaching open water, one of the boats and the men aboard were lost. The remaining two boats became separated. De Long's boat reached the eastern side of the Lena River delta, Melville’s, reached the western side. Melville's party was rescued, but De Long and his men died of exposure and starvation. Melville later led an expedition that found the remains of De Long and his party the following Spring. De Long's journal, in which he made regular entries until shortly before his death, was found a year later and published as The Voyage of the Jeannette (1883). Three years after the Jeannette was sunk, wreckage from it was found on an ice floe on the southwest coast of Greenland, a discovery that gave new support to the theory of trans-Arctic drift.
Download or read book Icebound written by Leonard F. Guttridge and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting account of America's unsuccessful quest for the North Pole in 1879 and the cover-up that followed reads like a Gothic mystery, with a cast of characters usually found only in fiction.
Download or read book Our Lost Explorers written by Newcomb Raymond Lee and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Our Lost Explorers The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant de Long written by Richard W. Bliss and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Hell on Ice written by Edward Ellsberg and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tragedy of Errors written by Beau Riffenburgh and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bound by Ice written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Calkins Creek. This book was released on 2017 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts George W. De Long's expedition to reach the North Pole.
