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Abandoned (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Abandoned (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Launched as part of the United States participation in the first
International Polar Year, the Greely Arctic Expedition sent
twenty-five volunteers to Ellesmere Island off the northwest coast
of Greenland. The crew was commanded by Adolphus W. Greely, a
lieutenant in the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. The ship sent to
resupply them in the summer of 1882 was forced to turn back before
reaching the station, and the men were left to endure short
rations. The second relief ship, sent in 1883, was crushed in the
ice. The crew spend a third, wretched winter camped at Cape Sabine.
Supplies ran out, the hunting failed, and men began to die of
starvation. At last, in the summer of 1884, the six survivors were
brought home, but the excitement of their return soon turned into a
national scandal-rumors of cannibalism during that dreadful, final
winter were supported by grisly evidence.
"Abandoned" is the gripping account of men battling for survival as
they are pitted against the elements and each other. It is also the
most complete and authentic account of the controversial Greely
Expedition ever published, an exemplar of the best in chronicles of
polar exploration.
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