Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology /

Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology /

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Edition:	1st Cooper Square ed.
Imprint:	New York : Cooper Square Press, 2002.
Description:	xxiv, 486 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Tyson, George E. -- (George Emory), -- 1829-1906. Tyson, George E. -- (George Emory), -- 1829-1906. Polaris (Ship) Polaris (Ship) Tigress (Ship) Discoveries in geography. Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. Arctic Regions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6654853

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Other authors / contributors:	Tyson, George E. (George Emory), 1829-1906. Blake, E. Vale (Euphemia Vale), 1817-1904. Leslie, Edward E.
ISBN:	0815411898 : $24.95 9780815411895
Notes:	... an unabridged republication of the edition originally published in New York in 1874, with the addition of a new introduction by Edward E. Leslie"--T.p. verso. Includes index. committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust
Summary:	In his 1874 account of his expedition to the arctic, Tyson tells how he was separated from his ship & how he survived among the Eskimos. Annotation. In 1871 veteran navigator George Emory Tyson joined the first American expedition to explore the North Pole, but by August 1872, after the mysterious death of the Polaris' leader, Charles Francis Hall, the ice pack in which the ship was travelling began to break up. Nineteen crew members, including Tyson, were stranded on an ice-floe when the ship abandoned them. They were not rescued until April 30, 1873. Unavailable for nearly a century, Arctic Experiences is the fierce, harrowing chronicle of Tyson's incredible feat of endurance and survival.

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Summary:	A compelling account of the ill-fated 1871 American expedition to the North Pole recalls the extraordinary story of survival and endurance in the face of the most extreme conditions of weather and starvation.
Item Description:	... an unabridged republication of the edition originally published in New York in 1874, with the addition of a new introduction by Edward E. Leslie"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 486 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0815411898 9780815411895