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ByGeorge W. DeLong,Raymond Lee Newcomb
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“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” –P.J. O’Rourke
Synopsis
Lieutenant George Washington DeLong was an American explorer whose disastrous arctic expedition gave evidence of a continuous ocean current across the Polar Regions. In July of 1879 he set sail from San Francisco taking the Jeanette through the Bering Strait and heading for an island off the northeast coast of Siberia. However, on September 5th, the ship became trapped in the ice. With crewman George Melville's engineering skill, the boat was kept afloat for almost two years until it was finally crushed on June 12, 1881.
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