Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North PoleTrapped in the ice for two winters, the Jeannette eventually buckled under the crushing power of the pack and sank. Her crew escaped but was forced to haul eight tons of supplies and three boats over hundreds of miles of ice before reaching open water. A frigid, blizzard-churned sea claimed the men in one vessel. Those who reached land wandered across the vast wastelands of the Siberian tundra, some to safety, others to their deaths. |
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... Jeannette anchored off Sertse Kamen , an ice - cluttered bay whose east and southern shores were lined with crude huts and skin tents . Lieutenant Chipp took a party ashore in the Jeannette's whaleboat but made little headway with his ...
... Jeannette anchored off Sertse Kamen , an ice - cluttered bay whose east and southern shores were lined with crude huts and skin tents . Lieutenant Chipp took a party ashore in the Jeannette's whaleboat but made little headway with his ...
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... Jeannette's cruise might have been in part due to his rigid avoid- ance of canned meats . " He abhors our hash , lives mostly on vegetables . " Also , Ambler could feel confident that whatever else awaited the men of the Jeannette ...
... Jeannette's cruise might have been in part due to his rigid avoid- ance of canned meats . " He abhors our hash , lives mostly on vegetables . " Also , Ambler could feel confident that whatever else awaited the men of the Jeannette ...
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... Jeannette's logbook ; Lieutenant Commander De Long's letterbooks and true copies of his private journals ( the originals are in the Naval Academy Museum , Annapolis ) ; the Jeannette's medi- cal journal ; and a copy of the private diary ...
... Jeannette's logbook ; Lieutenant Commander De Long's letterbooks and true copies of his private journals ( the originals are in the Naval Academy Museum , Annapolis ) ; the Jeannette's medi- cal journal ; and a copy of the private diary ...
Contents
A Curious Departure I | 1 |
George and Emma ΙΟ | 10 |
The Petermann Factor | 24 |
Copyright | |
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