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Ice-pack and tundra : an account of the search for the Jeannette and a sledge journey through Siberia

Title
Ice-pack and tundra : an account of the search for the Jeannette and a sledge journey through Siberia / by William H. Gilder, correspondent of "The New York Herald" with the Rodgers Search Expedition; author of "Schwatka's Search" ; with maps and illustrations.
Author
Gilder, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1900
Publication
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883

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Additional Authors
  • Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
  • J.J. Little & Co., printer.
Description
xi, [3], 344 p., [1] folded leaf of plates + [4] pages advertisements : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Jeannette (Ship)
  • Jeannette Expedition (1879-1881)
  • 1800-1899
  • Search and rescue operations > Arctic Ocean > 19th century
  • Search and rescue operations
  • Travel
  • Siberia (Russia) > Description and travel
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Russia (Federation) > Siberia
Contents
At sea -- Off Kamtchatka -- Petropaulovski -- St. Michael's -- In St. Lawrence Bay -- Wrangel Island -- Round the Island -- In the ice fields -- Eeteetlan -- Loss of the Rodgers -- Prospects of relief -- The fate of Putnam -- Across Siberia -- On the road -- Middle Kolymsk -- Approaching the Lena -- The diary of De Long -- How the bodies were found -- The voyage of the Jeannette -- The retreat -- Bennett Island -- Nindermann and Noros -- Among the Yakouts -- Caught by the floods -- End of the journey.
OCLC
  • ocm01984490
  • 1984490
  • SCSB-305380
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library