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
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Author : Raymond Lee Newcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Our Lost Explorers written by Raymond Lee Newcomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Arctic regions categories.
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.
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Author : George W. Delong
language : en
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Release Date : 2001-05-21
Our Lost Explorers written by George W. Delong and has been published by Digital Scanning Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-21 with History categories.
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.
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Author : George W. DeLong
language : en
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Release Date : 2000-10-01
Our Lost Explorers written by George W. DeLong and has been published by Digital Scanning Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with History categories.
Lieutenant George Washington DeLong 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 Jeanette through the Bering Strait and heading for an island off the northeast coast of Siberia. However, on September 5th, the ship became trapped in the ice. 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.
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
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Author : Richard W. Bliss
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-04-27
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 has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-27 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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
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Author : George Washington De Long
language : en
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company
Release Date : 1882
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 George Washington De Long and has been published by Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Arctic regions categories.
Our Lost Explorers The Narrative Of The Jeannette Artic Expedition
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Author : Raymond Lee Newcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
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Author : Newcomb Raymond Lee
language : en
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Our Lost Explorers The Narrative Of The Jeannette Arctic Expedition As Related By The Survivors And In The Records And Last Journals Of written by Newcomb Raymond Lee and has been published by Sagwan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with History categories.
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Author : Richard W. Bliss
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-26
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Excerpt from 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 The Arctic Ocean has been for years the nursery of heroic deeds. And had the results of enterprise been even less than they have been in that region of frost and ice, and months-long night, what has been shown there of that which is noblest and most ad mirable in man would have been worth all that it has cost. The story of war and of battle brings to light much bravery, much en durance - often much magnanimity; yet the record is stained with so much of bloodshed, and of cruelty, that not infrequently it seems more like a transcript of the baser human passions than of heroic courage and noble achievement. And Arctic discovery, too, is full of pain, for its course is tracked with hardships, and its field is sown with graves. Yet there is so much of brightness, of hope, of mutual helpfulness, and of novel experience in the record, that we turn to the stories of polar adventure with the same zest with which boys breathe in the probabilities and glorious reckless ness of such adventurers as Tom Sawyer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : Raymond Lee Newcomb
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-10
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Our Lost Explorers
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Author : Raymond Lee Newcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Our Lost Explorers written by Raymond Lee Newcomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Arctic regions categories.
Also includes an account of the Jeanette search expeditions, their discoveries, the burning of the Rodgers, etc.