The Voyage of The Jeannette The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long. Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881

DE LONG, EMMA (EDITED BY)

Published by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1886

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Large 8vo.HARDCOVER Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and black lettering and decorations on the front board, pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. "Jeannette" is outlined in gilt with gilt decorations meant to simulate icicles. The volume's rear board the decorations and the lettering are done in blind. Illustrated by a frontispiece. Includes a fold-out map in the text of volume one. Edited by his wife Emma De Long. Arctic Bibliography 3839. De Long was a Lieutenant-Commander in the U.S.Navy and commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881. The journals narrate the expedition made under the authority of the U.S. Navy and financed by J.G. Bennett. The Jeannette left from San Francisco on July 8, 1879 and stopped at numerous places in the Bering Sea. The ship went adrift in the ice near Herald Island, November 1879. After drifting at sea for nineteen months, the ship was crushed and sunk northeast of the New Siberian Islands. Thirty-three men left the ship and twenty-five of these men reached the Lena delta where De Long and eleven other men died. The journal details the ice, the animal life, the drift in the Siberian arctic seas, the health of the crew, Northern Lights, storms, several islands, and the Lena Delta. A presentable set with beautiful vignettes of images from the expedition, including several miniature illustrations of the animals encountered along the way. THIS IS A EX LIBRARY EDITON. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES. Seller Inventory # L8204

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Voyage of The Jeannette The Ship and Ice...

Publisher: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON

Publication Date: 1886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good