Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole - Hardcover

Guttridge, Leonard F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087021330X ISBN 13: 9780870213304

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1986

Synopsis

Describes the fates of crewmembers after the Jeannette, trapped in the ice for two years, finally broke apart and sank, and recounts the congressional investigations which followed the expedition's failure

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard F. Guttridge was born in Wales and served throughout World War II in Britain?s Royal Air Force. He wrote The Commodores for Naval Institute Press, Icebound, and co-wrote The Great Coalfield War with George S. McGovern.?A gripping story of suspense and adventure?colorful characters abound.??Publisher?s Weekly

From Publishers Weekly:

The 1879 expedition began with high hopes of Arctic discoveries; it came to disaster on Siberian shores, and the official investigation that followed was an adroitly managed cover-up. Guttridge, coauthor (with J. D. Smith) of The Commodores, has ferreted out the facts about the Jeannette and the ship's company. Playboy/publisher James Gordon Bennett underwrote the expedition, led by Lt. George W. De Long, USN. The Jeannette was trapped in ice for two years before it broke up; the crew escaped in three boats. One disappeared without a trace, two landed separately on the vast delta of the Lena River, and the men in one boat perished of starvation. Colorful characters abound: the navigation officer incapacitated by syphilis, the marvelously inventive engineer, a famous criminal lawyer hamstrung by collusion among the survivors, a widow determined to protect her late husband's reputation. Guttridge unfolds a gripping story of suspense and adventure. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 087021330X
• ISBN 13: 9780870213304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296