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 ... Library Collection - Polar Exploration) - Softcover

Melville, George W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108041736 ISBN 13: 9781108041737

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Published in Britain in 1885, this is an account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions by American sailor and engineer George W. Melville (1841-1912). Journeying over a thousand miles across Siberia, Melville overcame the deadly hardships of an Arctic winter in a vain search for stranded survivors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108041736
• ISBN 13: 9781108041737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 546
• Editor: Philips Melville