"In the summer of 1881, Lt. Adolphus Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry and a crew of twenty-one men set out on the Proteus to explore the then relatively-unknown Arctic Circle. The crew of the Proteus will instead forever be remembered for the catastrophe that they encountered, one that yielded few survivors. After a relatively calm first year in the Arctic, the members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition grew increasingly desperate as ships carrying essential supplies--food, clothing, and building materials, among ...
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"In the summer of 1881, Lt. Adolphus Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry and a crew of twenty-one men set out on the Proteus to explore the then relatively-unknown Arctic Circle. The crew of the Proteus will instead forever be remembered for the catastrophe that they encountered, one that yielded few survivors. After a relatively calm first year in the Arctic, the members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition grew increasingly desperate as ships carrying essential supplies--food, clothing, and building materials, among other items--failed to reach them due to increasingly perilous conditions. Slowly but surely the harsh weather and low supplies decimated the crew, as one by one they succumbed to the merciless Arctic"--
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Seller's Description:
Fair. No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) Signed. A Fair copy (brief 1931 gift inscription) in black cloth of the stated first edition, with the spine lettering quite faded but the front cover lettering legible. About sixty pages at the rear are creased and/or lightly chipped at the top corner, in the margin only. The binding is sound and the text is clean. Nicely inscribed and signed by editor Bessie Rowland James at the title page. Please note: signed by editor James (who is given title page credit as editor), but not by Brainard. No dust jacket.
