The Voyage Of The Jeannette. The Ship And Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., And Commander of The Polar Ecpedition Of 1879-1881; Edited by Emma DeLong With Steel Portraits, Maps, and Many Illustrations on wood and Stone
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. First edition. X, IX, 901 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Plates, Vignettes. Maps, Charts and Diagrams. Appendix. Index. Full page portrait of De Long Vol. 1, Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into the Bering Sea and through the Bering Strait, but was caught in the ice near Herald Island on 2 September 1879. For nineteen months she drifted northwest until the ship was finally crushed and sank northeast of the New Siberian Islands. Twenty–five of the thirty–three men who abandoned the ship reached the Lena Delta, but there De Long and eleven others perished due to starvation and extreme conditions. ARTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 3839. Lacks folding map Vol.1 rear. Item #24722
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