Volume I begins with a brief chapter of De Long’s biography.
The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881.
De Long, George W. Edited by his Wife, Emma De Long. Two Volumes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1883.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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Lieutenant Danenhower’s Narrative of the “Jeannette”
Danenhower, John W. Boston: Osgood, 1882.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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A well-written and sympathetic account by the syphilitic officer who actually served fairly well despite his periodic illnesses, and the opprobrium of having concealed his condition in order to join the expedition.
Explorer’s Wife.
De Long, Emma Wotton. Introduction by Vilhajlmur Stefansson. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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p. 1: During the winter of 1932 Vilhjalmur Stefansson asked me to lend some of the relics of the Jeannette Expedition, commanded by my husband, to Mr. Bassett Jones of the Explorers Club. Mr. Jones was organizing a private exhibition of Arctic books and relics at the Grolier Club of New York. I had such things aplenty, of course, and gladly complied. Among those chosen were the large journal written by my husband on board the Jeannette up to the time of her crushing by the ice pack, the two ice journals in pencil, which faithfully recorded his fearful trip southward with his men to Siberia across the ice, and a silk flag which I had made as my contribution to the Expedition.
Hell on Ice: The Saga of the “Jeannette“
Ellsberg, Edward. .” New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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p. viii-ix, Preface: Reading what I could get my hands on concerning it [the Jeannette expedition], I soon enough saw that De Long's early failure was a more brilliant chapter in human struggle and achievement than the later successes of Peary and of Amundsen.
Ice-Pack and Tundra: An Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey through Siberia.
Gilder, William H. New York: Scribner’s, 1883.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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A chatty and often witty account of the 1881 Jeannette search aboard the Rodgers by a reporter for the New York Herald.
Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition’s Quest for the North Pole.
Guttridge, Leonard F. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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Excellent account in every respect of a disastrous expedition.
In the Lena Delta: A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and His Companions; Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief Expedition, and a Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole.
Melville, George Wallace. Edited by Melville Philips. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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This was the crucial expedition in finding the fate of DeLong and the Jeannette.
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette
Muir, John. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- 1879-81 US North Pole Expedition (commanded by George De Long aboard Jeannette).
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This work collects reports from Muir’s trip, mainly dealing with glaciology and other naturalist interests. His is a graceful and easy style and he has an observant eye, down to the hair on the bottom of a polar bear’s foot.