Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Relief Expedition, 1884

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Author: Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911) Year: 1884 Publisher: Government Printing Office Place: Washington, DC Description: 75+[3 map] pages with frontispiece and 32 plates. Small folio (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to cover. First edition. After re-supply and relief missions repeatedly failed to reach Lieutenant Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in the Arctic, Schley was appointed in February 1884 to command the next relief expedition. His flagship was the recently purchased Canadian sailing bark Bear, which would go on to have a long and distinguished career in Federal service. On 22 June, near Cape Sabine in Grinnell Land, Schley rescued Greely and six (of his twenty-four) companions, after passing through 1,400 miles of ice during the voyage. Condition: Rebound, stain to frontispiece portrait edge not affecting portrait, tissue guards in place at portrait leaves else very good.

• Binding: Hardcover

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