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In the Lena Delta - A Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander De Long and his Companions, Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole (Paperback)
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In the Lena Delta - A Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander De Long and his Companions, Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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George W. Melville (1841 1912) was a member of an 1879 American
Arctic expedition seeking a northern passage from the Bering Strait
to the Atlantic. Its ship was trapped in ice for nearly two years,
and was eventually crushed and sank. The crew, stranded in three
small boats, were left with few provisions and little hope of
rescue. Melville was the only boat commander to bring his men to
safety, assuming leadership of the survivors after landing in
Siberia in 1881. He returned to search for other survivors,
trekking over a thousand miles, but found only the bodies of his
former companions in a frozen campsite, from which, however, he
recovered the expedition's records. This account also includes
details of Melville's role in the Greely Relief Expedition of 1884,
from which he returned shortly before the book's British
publication in 1885, and a detailed proposal for reaching the North
Pole.
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