Introduction by Commander Donald B. MacMillan. A fourteen-year-old boy recounts his life working as a cabin boy on The Bowdoin. Tells his experiences traveling through the Arctic. 142 pp. Photographs. Covers are clean and VG+. Some sporadic foxing. Doesn't interfere with text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. View More...
55th Congress, 3d Session. Senate. Document No. 66. Message from the President (William McKinley) of the United States Relative to The Relief Expedition to the Arctic Ocean. "...in the month of October, 1897, reports were received here of the probable lossof the whaling fleet in the arctic regions, and of the likelihood that nearly three hundred men, composing the officers and crews of the fleet, would perish from hunger unless succor could reach them early in the spring." Tells of the preparation of the revenue-cutter BEAR, the overland expedition and the rescue of the whalemen. 3 pp.... View More...
