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TYSON, GEORGE E. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-Floe. Edited by E. V. Blake. Map, plates and illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip and recased with the original endpapers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874
first edition. The Polaris Expedition to the North Pole left New London in July 1871 under the command of Charles Francis Hall and by August had reached a record 82º11'N. Everything went downhill from there: Hall was murdered by the ship's doctor, the ship abandoned and the floe onto which 19 members had sought safety broke away and drifted for 6 months (with Tyson as the senior officer) before being rescued in 1873. Books on Ice 4.5; Arctic Bibliography 1694.
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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