Download or read book Report of Board of Officers to Consider an Expedition for the Relief of Lieut Greely and Party written by United States Board of Officers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1884 official report proposing a third expedition to rescue any survivors of the 1881 Greely expedition to the Arctic.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Proteus Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883 written by United States Congress and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1884 investigation into the two failed attempts to relieve the Greely Arctic Expedition led to success later that year.

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