Our Last Explorers of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition Our Last Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition As Related by the Survivors and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant Delong.

Newcomb, Raymond Lee.

Edité par Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company 1884, 1883

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479 pp. Octavo. No dust-jacket. Brown pictorial cloth. Facade shows black lettering, as well as silver, gilt, and black design. Spine has black and gilt lettering, as well as silver, gilt, and black design. Back cloth board is triple blind ruled and decorated with blindstamps. Edges trimmed. Light coral endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down, as well as previous owner's inscription in blue pen dated 1919. Otherwise unmarked. No half-title. B/W frontispiece showcasing portraits of 8 officers of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition, dated 1882. Frontis protected by original frontis tissue. 114 further B/W engravings, as well as 6 B/W maps, plans, etc. Appendix included. Several as published illustrations throughout novel are unreferenced in contents. Only missing illustration is a B/W engraving on p. 427, although the page on which it should be, is included. Foxing to first and last several pages, as well as very minor foxing to edges. Being a previous library copy, the title-page has a library stamp. Front hinge-slightly loose. Cloth is slightly faded, but undamaged. A very good copy of this 1884 edition of the 1882 novel. Officially dubbed the U.S Arctic Expedition, the Jeannette Expedition of 1879 was a three year long attempted voyage led by George W. Delong which anticipated arrival at the North Pole by creating a route from the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait. USS Jeannette, the ship leading the expedition, held 33 men who would, quickly into the voyage, be trapped by ice and left drifting for almost two years, at the end of which Jeannette would sink north of the Siberian coast. Following the sinking of the ship, De Long led the surviving crew on a treacherous sled journey, during which they would drag the ship's whaleboat, until eventually assimilating to small boats for sail in Siberia. This journey and the several following weeks of the crew wandering in Siberia anticipating rescue, would amass a death toll of 19 crew members and De Long himself. Jeannette's incredible journey is recounted using several mediums in this 1884 edition of the 1882 novel.

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• Titre: Our Last Explorers of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition Our Last Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition As Related by the Survivors and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant Delong.
• Éditeur: Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company 1884
• Date de parution: 1883
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Arctic
  • Travel and Exploration