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In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette  Cover Image Book Book

In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette / Hampton Sides.

Sides, Hampton. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780385535373 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0385535376 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-451).
Formatted Contents Note:
The company of the USS Jeannette -- Baptism by ice -- A great blank space. A shocking Sabbath carnival of death ; Ne plus ultra ; The Lord of Creation ; For you I will dare anything ; Gateways to the Pole -- The national genius. The engine of the world ; Satisfaction ; The Sage of Gotha ; Pandora ; Three years, or eternity ; A benediction ; Second chances ; The U.S. Arctic Expedition ; All that man can do ; The new invader -- A glorious country to learn patience in. A cul-de-sac ; Nipped ; Among the swells ; If by any mischance ; A delusion and a snare ; Forever, almost ; Invisible hands -- We are not yet daunted. On the lone icebound sea ; The discovered country ; Tidings ; Death strokes -- The end of creation. All Mucky ; Nil desperandum ; The phantom continent ; A second promised land ; Eight precious days ; The known world ; Seas high and spiteful -- The whisper of the stars. Lucky fourteen ; Remember me in New York ; If it takes my last dollar ; Frantic pantomimes ; Incubus of horrors ; White gloom ; The Russian nation at your back ; They that watch for the morning ; A wild dirge through time -- As long as I have ice to stand on.
Subject: Jeannette (Ship) > History.
Shipwrecks > Arctic Ocean > History > 19th century.
Shipwreck survival > Arctic Ocean > History > 19th century.
Shipwreck survival > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > History > 19th century.
Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918.
De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881.
Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918.
De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881.
Jeannette (Ship)
Shipwreck survival.
Shipwrecks.
Arctic Ocean.
Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Genre: History.

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