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George W. De Long (1844–81) was a US Navy officer who set out to find a new route to the North Pole via the Bering Strait. During his voyage, which left San Francisco in 1879, he claimed the De Long Islands for the USA. But when his vessel, the Jeannette, sank, the crew abandoned ship, and he eventually died of starvation in Siberia. Compiled by his wife from his journals and the testimony of the survivors, these two volumes document De Long's doomed expedition. First published in 1883, Volume 2 records the Jeannette's final wreckage, and the crew's continuation of their perilous mission in smaller boats. It concludes with the discovery of De Long's records, and later his remains, by surviving crew member George Melville. Providing a vivid account of nineteenth-century Polar exploration, it remains of great interest to scholars of geography and maritime studies.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Voyage of the Jeannette
• Subtitle: The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881
• Author: George Washington De LongEmma De Long
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• EAN: 9781108050180
• ISBN: 1108050182
• ID: 02058306
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 630 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. June 2012

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