Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition, as Related by the Survivors

Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition, As Related by the Survivors, And in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long. Also, An Account of the Jeannette Search Expeditions, Their Discoveries, The Burning of the Rodgers, &c., &c. Along with Maps, Portraits, and many Engravings. Published in Hartford, and San Francisco, in 1883. (479 pages)

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Excerpt from Introduction:
...The book now "before the reader falls not a whit behind its predecessors. Indeed, as an unbroken current of hardship, disappointments, perils, and final disaster, uncheered with scarce a gleam of that success which was fondly hoped at the outset, the work is without a rival. From the time when this little company of about one-third of a hundred souls, became entangled in thfc ice masses off Herald Island and Northeastern Siberia, and then embedded in the floes, on and on, through the long winters of 1879, 1880, and 1881, and through the brief summers of 1880 and 1881, down to the discovery of some of the survivors, and in their immense and unparalleled feats of courage, strength, and endurance in crossing the ice-fields after the Jeannette went down, till they reached the Siberian villages and towns, there is one continuous strain of heroism, one incessant and good-humored story of that which is best and most hopeful in the human soul. And so the book becomes in its revelations of character, a work of singular and thrilling interest.

Contents:
Chapter I. The Jeannette And Her Crew — Voyage To The Arctic Ocean — Chapter II. A Search For Missing Whalers And The Jeannette — Chapter III. Searches For The Jeannette — Second Cruise Of The Corwin — Chapter IV. Searches For The Jeannette — Cruise Of The Rodgers — Chapter V. Searches For The Jeannette — Cruise Of The Alliance — Chapter VI. Plans For An International Search — Chapter VII. First Tidings From The Explorers — Chapter VIII. The Siberian Tundra — Chapter IX. The Lena River And Its Delta — Chapter X. Engineer Melville's Narrative — Chapter XI. Lieutenant De Long's Records — Chapter XII. Experiences Of Nindermann, Noros, And Leach — Chapter XIII. Yakutsk — Chapter XIV. Irkutsk — Chapter XV. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — Chapter XVI. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — Chapter XVII. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — Chapter XVIII. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — Chapter XIX. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — Chapter XX. Lieutenant Danenhower's Narrative — (Concluded) — Chapter XXI. Lieutenant DeLong's Log-Book — Chapter XXII. A Roll of Honor — Chapter XXIII. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXIV. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXV. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXVI. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXVII. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXVIII. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXIX. Mr. Newcomb's Narrative — Chapter XXX. DeLong's Fate Discovered — The Graves On The Lena — Chapter XXXI. Lieutenant DeLong's Diary — Chapter XXXII. New Searchers In The Field — Chapter XXXIII. Burning Of The Rodgers — An Ice-Floe Tragedy — Chapter XXXIV. Life Among The Churches — Chapter XXXV. Mr. Gilder's Travels In Siberia — Chapter XXXVI. The Story Of The Forlorn Hope — Chapter XXXVII. Engineer Melville's Narrative — Appendix.