Narrative of the North Polar expedition : U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding...
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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Publisher
Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876.
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (696 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, portrait.
Content type
text
Media type
computer
Carrier type
online resource
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...
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Publisher
Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876.
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
1876.
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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 th...
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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.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Bryan, Richard W. D., contributor.
Chester, Hubbard C., d. 1889?, contributor.
Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877, editor.
Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871, contributor.
Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913. illustrator.
Nichols, H. H. (Henry Hobart), 1816-1887, engraver.
Schumann, Emil, illustrator.
Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917, illustrator.
Tyson, George E. (George Emory), 1829-1906, contributor.
United States. Navy Department. issuing body.
Notes
General note
U.S. Naval observation ; 1876
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
Includes index.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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....
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74VKVEa5gLab
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991024131308902626
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