Item #14106 In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole. George W. Melville, Ed. Melville Philips.
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole
In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole

In the Lena Delta; A Narrative of the Search for Lieut. Commander DeLong and His Companions [Jeannette expedition tragedy] Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [Cambridge: The Riverside Press], 1885. Very Good. First Edition, 2nd Printing. [9x6.5in]; xiii, [2], 497 pp., [8] advertisements, appendices and index, frontispiece of Melville and 15 plates of black and white illustrations, 4 maps; Dark green cloth cover with black ink embossed lettering and illustration on front and gilt lettering on spine, olive end papers, all edges trimmed; Some shelf wear to covers, edges and corners, rubbing to covers and joints, white spotting on spine, front and back covers, corners frayed and bumped, minor frayed bottom and top of spine, age toning to text edges, frontispiece tissue guard shadow offset to title page, bookseller stamp on rear end paper, prior owner ink signature on free end paper "Stephen C. Mills, 1st Lieut. 12th Inftry., New York, April 2nd, 1885". [Arctic Biblio 11239, Howgego III D4, Sanderson 966]. Item #14106

George Melville (1841-1912) was a Rear Admiral in the Navy, Naval Engineer and Arctic Explorer. He was on three epic expeditions and this book recounts these adventures. His polar experience started as Chief Engineer on the Schley relief expedition to rescue Greely from Ellesmere Is. In 1879, he was part of the De Long Jeannette expedition through the Bearing Sea to discover a warm current of open water to the North Pole. From a National Geographic article, “... the ship was caught in the polar ice pack and drifted nearly two years before it was crushed. De Long and the crew abandoned her, dragging three lifeboats with provisions until they found open water. Intending to reach Siberia, the boats were separated. Melville, in command of one boat, managed to reach the delta of the Lena River and was rescued. The others perished. Melville then led an expedition that recovered records of the  Jeanette expedition as well as the remains of De Long and his companions.”

Stephen C. Mills (1855-1914) was a graduate of West Point and commissioned as a 2nd Lieut. in the 12th Infantry regiment of New York, a storied State Militia organized in 1847, active in the Civil War engagements. By 1877, when Mills was assigned, the regiment was garrisoned at Angel Island in San Francisco bay. In 1878, they participated in the Bannock War of 1878 between the Bannock and Paiute natives in Idaho and northeastern Oregon. Mills spent the next six years in frontier assignments in Arizona. By 1884 the unit was reassigned to Madison Barracks, N.Y. Mills went on to become a professor of Military Science, served as Military attaché U. S. Legation in Denmark, and assigned to the Inspector-General's office in Washington until his death after 37 years in the Army.

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