GREELY ADOLPHUS Three Years of Arctic Service An Account of

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GREELY, ADOLPHUS. Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84. Plates, maps (including the large folding map in the rear pocket) and illustrations. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, minor rubbing and abrasions. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886

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first edition. America's primary contribution to the first International Polar Year, the 1881 Greely expedition established a scientific base on Ellesmere Island which they named Fort Conger. When no relief expedition had reached the party by August 1883, they were forced to abandon the station and journey by small boat to Cape Sabine. The supplies that waited them there, however, were woefully inadequate and 20 of the 27 died that winter of scurvy or starvation before a rescue attempt could reach them. Arctic Bibliography 6118; Books on Ice 4.8.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.