Arctic Experiences: Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-FloeThe Polaris expedition to the North Pole, the first such journey led by Americans, mixed groundbreaking achievements with harrowing disasters. Veteran sailor of the North Seas George Tyson joined the expedition when it set out in 1871, and kept a detailed record of the remarkable events that occurred on board the ship. Tyson's journal relates the mysterious death of the expedition's leader, Captain Charles Francis Hall, and the ship's entrapment in arctic ice. The bulk of Tyson's book concerns the months he spent with nineteen fellow crew-members stuck on a broad chunk of ice that broke away from the Polaris and drifted out into the sea. Tyson tells of his life with Eskimos and his daily struggle to survive in subzero temperatures, each day wondering if he would make it back to America. |
What people are saying - Write a review
Arctic experiences: aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe: to which is added a general arctic chronology
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictPublishers are suddenly gaga for survivor and exploration adventure stories, and this combines both. Tyson was among the crew of the Polaris, which carried the first American expedition to the Arctic ... Read full review
Contents
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER | 19 |
captain tysons early arctic experience | 75 |
The North Polar Expedition authorized by Congress Captain Halls Commission | 100 |
Copyright | |
32 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Arctic explorer August Baffin Baffin Bay bergs blubber boat C. F. Hall Cape Captain Buddington Captain Hall Captain Tyson Charles Francis Hall Chester coast cold Commander crew dark Davis Strait Disco discovered dogs dovekies drift east Emil Bessel Esquimaux floe Franklin gale glaciers Goodhavn Greenland Hall's harbor heavy Holsteinborg hope ice-floe icebergs Inuit Island Johns Juniata kyack Lancaster Sound land latitude look Meyers miles morning narwhals natives Navy North Pole north-west Northumberland Island observations open water Parry party pemmican Polar Expedition Polaris port provisions reached Repulse Bay returned Robeson Robeson Channel sailed scientific seal seen ship shore shot sight skins sledges Smith Sound snow soon steam steamer Strait Thank God Harbor thing Tigress to-day United States Steamship Upernavik vessel voyage weather whale wind winter winter-quarters
Bibliographic information
| Title | Arctic Experiences: Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-Floe |
| Author | George Emory Tyson |
| Contributor | Edward E. Leslie |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cooper Square Press, 2002 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | Jan 6, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0815411898, 9780815411895 |
| Length | 486 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Historical |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |