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.
Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871, contributor.; Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877, editor.; Tyson, George E. (George Emory), 1829-1906, contributor.; Chester, Hubbard C., d. 1889?, contributor.; Bryan, Richard W. D., contributor.; Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888, illustrator.; Schumann, Emil, illustrator.; Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917, illustrator.; Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913, illustrator.; Nichols, Henry Hobart, 1816-1887, engraver.; United States. Navy Department, issuing body.
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Title 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.
Published Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (696 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, portrait.
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 the ice-floe party have been furnished by the journals and note-books of Geo. E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator, and of others with him on the floe, and by the testimony given before the board organized by the Secretary of the Navy, June 5, 1873.
Note 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.
Includes index.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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Added Author Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871, contributor.
Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877, editor.
Tyson, George E. (George Emory), 1829-1906, contributor.
Chester, Hubbard C., d. 1889?, contributor.
Bryan, Richard W. D., contributor.
Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888, illustrator.
Schumann, Emil, illustrator.
Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917, illustrator.
Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913, illustrator.
Nichols, Henry Hobart, 1816-1887, engraver.
Added Corporate Author United States. Navy Department, issuing body.
Series U.S. Naval observation ; 1876
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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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 boat-journeys, June-July, 1872 [condensed by R. W. D. Bryan]
Journals used in the preparation of the Narrative of the Polaris expedition.

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