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160 The Publishers' Circular Peb * I5 i8...
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160 The Publishers' Circular Peb * I5 I8...
160 The Publishers' Circular Peb * i 8 g
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IN THE PRESS , TO BE PUBLISHED IMMEDIATELY . One Vol . full octavo of 400 pp . with about Fifty Illustrations , all from Original drawings or Photographs . ICE-PACK AND TUNDRA ; AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH FOR THE ' JEANNETTE , ' AND A SLEDGE-JOURNEY THROUGH SIBERIA . J 3 Y "W . H . QILDEB , Correspondent of the New Yohk Hjkkald , with the RoJgcrs Search Expedition , Author of 'Schwatka ' s Search , ' & c . & c . OUTLINE OF CONTENTS . The book opens with the vojage of the Rodgers . It describes the arrival on the Kamtchatkan coast , the town of Petropaulovsk , and the habits of the natives . Two chapters are then devoted to the diseorery of the Bodgers party that Wrangel Land is an island , and to an account of the circumnavigation of it . The author is then sent into camp at Ectcetlen , where ho spends the winter among the Tohucktcbes , whoso life he describes fully . He then receives ' news that the Rodgcrs is burned ; and a minute account of the burning follows . The death of Putnam on an ice-floe ; the most painful episode of the whole Bodgers expedition , is then told . The author is now sent to carry the news of the disaster to the nearest telegraph station ; and the noxt portion of the book is occupied with his journey of more than five thousand miles through the Siberian waste . Arriving on the Aldan bo waits for news of Melville , who is conducting the search for Be Long . Ho meets the courier sent back by Melville , and uses his prerogative as the Herald representative to stop him and open his bag of despatches . From these he learns the news of the death of De Long and his companions . The bag contains the papers from the Jeannette and the last journal of Oe Long continued to tho day of his death . This journal and other papers are reproduced in full . This passage of the book is of thoroughly dramatic interest—Grilder alone , except for a few Esquimaux with whom he can hardly communicate , receiving the first news of the Jeannette party which hm reached anyone but the searchers , and feeling the full force of the tragedy and tho responsibility of bringing back the story to the mails and telf graphs . At this point the whole story of the Jeannette is given from its papers and the accounts given by survivors to Mr . Gilder at his meeting with them . The bag latter and portion on his of journey the book to describes Irkutsk ; the his adventures detention which by the he floods met , with his danger after opening from them the , courier and his s narrow oscape from dying of hunger , are the exciting passages of this part of the story . At Irkutsk ho closes tho book , his special errand boiug finished . London : SAMPSON LOW , MAKSTON , SEARLE , & R 1 VINGT 0 N , Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , E . C , ( lo 1 *
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1883, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021883/page/24/
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