Three years of Arctic service : an account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84, and the attainment of the farthest north / By Adolphus W. Greely Lieutenant U. S. Army, Commanding the Expedition. With nearly one hundred illustrations made from photographs taken by the party, and with the official maps and charts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884).

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.

Arctic regions.

Arctic Regions.

Discoveries in geography.

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes, 43 leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (part folded), folded facsimile ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty the Queen, 1886.

Notes:

"These volumes appear in response to the demands of the general public for a popular account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition ... The Secretary of War kindly granted me authority to incorporate in this work such official journals, maps, etc., as I might desire. This narrative, however, is based on my diary, though I have drawn freely, always with credit, from the official field reports, and also from the very complete journals of Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant Brainard, the only regular diaries, with my own, kept during the retreat and our subsequent life at Camp Clay."--Preface.

Brown leather ribbted spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers with top edge gilt stained. Each volume has ribbon bookmark.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Culture Class Collection copy has catalog description of this book laid in.

OCLC:

8061849