Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884.
Language: English
Published by Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United KingdomMeridian Rare Books ABA PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 250.00
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First edition. 4to. pp. 75; 3 wood-engraved portraits, 30 wood-engraved plates of Arctic views, ships and equipment, etc., 3 single-page engraved maps; chipped to fore-edge of front blank, else very good in the original black cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, a little rubbed and discoloured. A presentation copy, inscribed by Schley to "Col. R. G. English with the author's compliments W. S. Schley U.S.A. Washington, D.C. April 23d 1889". Aldophus Greely led the 1881 expedition undertaken to establish Arctic circumpolar stations. Two previous expeditions had failed to retrieve the Greely party in 1883; Schley and his team eventually found seven survivors at Cape Sabine north of Baffin Bay, the remaining 18 members having perished. Schley reports that the survivors were themselves close to death. He also writes: "In preparing the bodies of the dead for transportation". it was found that six of them . had been cut and the fleshy parts removed to a greater or less extent with a view no doubt to use as shrimp bait . Subsequent investigators suspected that the bodies had been cannibalised.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884.
- Author
- [Greely.] Schley, Winfield S.
- Publisher
- Washington: Government Printing Office
- Publication year
- 1887
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Arctic, Polar, Signed
Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA
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