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bTitle:/b In the Lena Delta. A narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his companions, followed by an account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a proposed method of reaching the North Pole ... Edited by Melville Philips. With maps, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holdi...

A personal account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions, detailing a heroic search for survivors, published in 1885.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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In 1881 George Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing vessel Jeanette when she finally succumbed to the pack ice off the coast of Siberia in 1881. The entire crew escaped onto the ice with three boats and made for the open sea. They became separated on the water, and only Melville's boat reached the relative safety of the western shore of the Lena River delta. He immediately recruited an expedition to find the others. This is the tale of...