Proceedings of the Proteus Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883 / United States Congress.
In 1881, Adolphus Greely led a US Arctic expedition to gather meteorological, astronomical and magnetic data. The expedition was poorly supported by the US Army, neither Greely nor his men had experience of Arctic conditions, and their ship, the Proteus, sailed home without them once they landed in...
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2012.
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Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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