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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Bibliographic Details
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.

Table of Contents:

Captain Tyson's early Arctic experience
Polaris Expedition
Polaris put into Commission Official instructions to the commander: Scientific directions - Letter of Captain Halls' - List of the officers and crew
Biographical sketch of Captain Hall
Dr. Emil Bessel
Notes by Captain Tyson on board the Polaris
Afraid of "Symme's Hole" Hunting-party
Putting provisions ashore
Captain Buddinggon passes to the command
Thanksgiving
Impressive discussion
Sledge vs. boat
Musk-cattle
Two boat-parties arranged
Engineer's report
Journal of George E. Tyson, assistant navigator on United States steamer Polaris, kept on the ice-floe: Adrift
Vain hunt for seal
Can see the land
Taking account of stock
Belated Joe
Solemn entry made in journal in view of death
Dreary, yet beautiful
Patching up clothes
Valuation of seals
Decide to make the attempt
Bear prospecting for a meal
Easter-Sunday
Joyful sight
Search for the Polaris and the survivors of the expedition
News of the rescue
Tigress, Commander James A. Greer, sets sail
Captain Tyson's cruise in the tigress
Tender hears among the blue-jackets
Homeward-bound
Change for the better
Gale abates
Hrdrography of Smith sound
How to read the North Pole
Polaris survivors
Fortunes of the Polaris survivors
Life on shore
Pacific tidal wave
Appendix
Index.

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