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Narrative of the North Polar expedition : U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding / edited under the direction of the Hon. G.M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, by Rear-Admiral C.H. Davis, U.S.N.
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- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
- U.S. Naval observation ; 1876
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871.
- Travel.
- Arctic regions--Description and travel.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Polaris (Ship).
- United States--Discovery and exploration.
- United States.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--American.
- Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871--Travel--Arctic regions.
- Hall, Charles Francis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (696 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, portrait.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This narrative has been prepared from official papers and from journals of the officers and men of the Expedition, as well as from valuable private contributions acknowledged in the text. The thread of the story of the Polaris has been drawn chiefly from a compilation made by Mr. R. W. D. Bryan, the Astronomer of the Expedition; the incidents of the ice-floe party have been furnished by the journals and note-books of Geo. E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator, and of others with him on the floe, and by the testimony given before the board organized by the Secretary of the Navy, June 5, 1873.
- Contents:
- Appendix: Instructions of the National Academy of Sciences
- Correspondence between the British Admiralty and the United States Navy Department in relation to the stores left by the Polaris expedition on the west coast of Greenland
- Journals of Mr. H.C. Chester and Captain Geo. E. Tyson while on boat-journeys, June-July, 1872 [condensed by R. W. D. Bryan]
- Journals used in the preparation of the Narrative of the Polaris expedition.
- Notes:
- Wood engravings painted in oil by Mr. H. J. Morgan, from original sketches by Mr. Emil Schumann and Dr. Emil Bessels; photographed on wood by Mr. T. W. Smillie, and engraved by Mr. H. H. Nichols.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
- OCLC:
- 47871118
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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