In the Lena Delta - A Narrative of Search for Lieut Commander De Long His Companions,

Klappentext A personal account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions, detailing a heroic search for survivors, published in 1885. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Off for the Pole; 2. Drifting; 3. Cast upon the ice; 4. Retreating over the pack; 5. Voyage of the whale-boat; 6. On the Lena Delta; 7. Up the Lena; 8. At Jamaveloch; 9. Siberian life; 10. Kusma to our rescue; 11. A step forward; 12. At Belun; 13. Searching for De Long; 14. Losing the trail; 15. A trip to the Arctic shore; 16. Struggling with Boreas; 17. End of my first search; 18. From Belun to Verkeransk; 19. From Verkeransk to Yakutsk; 20. At Yakutsk; 21. North again; 22. Storm-bound; 23. Finding the bodies; 24. The burial; 25. Searching for Chipp; 26. My final search to the Jana River; 27. Through Siberia; 28. Homeward bound; The Greely Relief Expedition: 1. Northward once more; 2. Racing in the Arctic waters; 3. The rescue; 4. The return voyage; A proposed method for reaching the North Pole; Appendix.

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• Authors: George W. Melville, Melville George W.
• Assisted by: Melville Philips (Editor), Philips Melville (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108041737
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04173-7
• No. of pages: 546
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, HISTORY / Historical Geography, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, Arctic regions, Historical Geography