George W. Melville

In the Lena Delta

Herausgeber: Philips, Melville

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A personal account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions, detailing a heroic search for survivors, published in 1885.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 761g
• ISBN-13: 9781108041737
• ISBN-10: 1108041736
• Artikelnr.: 34754747

Inhaltsangabe

1. Off for the Pole
2. Drifting
3. Cast upon the ice
4. Retreating over the pack
5. Voyage of the whale-boat
6. On the Lena Delta
7. Up the Lena
8. At Jamaveloch
9. Siberian life
10. Kusma to our rescue
11. A step forward
12. At Belun
13. Searching for De Long
14. Losing the trail
15. A trip to the Arctic shore
16. Struggling with Boreas
17. End of my first search
18. From Belun to Verkeransk
19. From Verkeransk to Yakutsk
20. At Yakutsk
21. North again
22. Storm-bound
23. Finding the bodies
24. The burial
25. Searching for Chipp
26. My final search to the Jana River
27. Through Siberia
28. Homeward bound
The Greely Relief Expedition: 1. Northward once more
2. Racing in the Arctic waters
3. The rescue
4. The return voyage
A proposed method for reaching the North Pole
Appendix.