The Voyage Of The Jeannette. The Ship And Ice Journals Of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., And Commander Of The Polar Expedition Of 1879-1881. Edited By His Wife, Emma De Long…

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2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 440; xii, [441]-911. 20 plates (1 tinted lithograph, 2 steel engraved portraits & 17 wood-engravings), 7 maps (3 folding 1 in rear pocket, 2 double-page) & numerous text illus. & maps (several full-page). wood-engraved title vignettes. A very nice set in original black, gilt & blind-stamped cloth (slight fraying to spine ends). Second American Edition. Account of the American Jeannette Expedition of 1879-81, financed by J.G.Bennett of the New York Herald, and commanded by George W.De Long. The Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into Bering Sea and through Bering Strait, but was caught in the ice near Herald Island in November of 1879. For nineteen months she drifted northwest until the ship was finally crushed and sank northeast of the New Siberian Islands. Twenty-five of the thirty-three men who abandoned the ship reached the Lena Delta, but there De Long and eleven others perished. The search expeditions for the survivors are also related here. Arctic Bib. 3839. cfNational Maritime Museum I 965. Smith 2391. N° de ref. del artículo elala3244

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