A chatty and often witty account of the 1881 Jeannette search aboard the Rodgers by a reporter for the New York Herald.
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).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Schwatka’s Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records.
Gilder, William H. New York: Scribner’s, 1881.
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Not to be confused with his Greely rescue, much of this earlier journey was published in the New York Herald for whom Gilder was a correspondent who also had gone in search of the Jeannette. The book credits the Schwatka expedition with confirming the loss of Franklin records (at Starvation Cove), the burial of the men and bones of the victims, the transport of one body home, and the recovery of the relics that went to Greenwich.