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Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (Northern Lights, 19) by Emil Bessels is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (Northern Lights, 19) about?

Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran afoul of arctic ice, leaving some of its crew stranded on an ice floe. Bessels and the others spent a

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Author

Emil Bessels

Publisher

University of Calgary Press : The Arctic Institute of North America

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781552388778

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Anthropology, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25