Description

L'Expédition de la Jeannette au Pole Nord (The expedition of the Jeannette to the North Pole) is a two-volume compilation of documents, published in Paris in 1883, relating to the wreck of the USS Jeannette in the Arctic Ocean in 1879‒81. The documents are partly based on reports that appeared in the New York Herald. The book contains an introductory overview of the most important Arctic polar voyages that predated the Jeannette’s and includes illustrations and maps. The Jeannette left San Francisco on July 8, 1879, under ...