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The adventure of Wrangel Island

Vilhjálmur Stefánsson

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Description:This is the story of an Arctic expedition, whose main object was to continue the occupation of Wrangel Island, begun in 1914 on behalf of the British Empire. The vital interest of the present book, however, concerns persons and not policies, and from first to last it is a tragedy- a fearful story of misfortune largely told in a dead man's diary. The experiment was a failure. The relief ship arrived to find only one person alive upon the Island, and she a woman, an Esquimaux seamstress whom the adventurers had taken with them. Lorne Knight lay still unburied in the tent, having written up his diary almost to the last. Ada Blackjack, the Esquimaux woman, dictated an account of their last weeks together, telling how she trapped foxes to get the dying man fresh meat. She did her best, she said. Doubt was thrown upon her narrative in the American Press when first the details of the expedition were known.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The adventure of Wrangel Island. To get started finding The adventure of Wrangel Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 416

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Macmillan co

Release: 1925

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Description: This is the story of an Arctic expedition, whose main object was to continue the occupation of Wrangel Island, begun in 1914 on behalf of the British Empire. The vital interest of the present book, however, concerns persons and not policies, and from first to last it is a tragedy- a fearful story of misfortune largely told in a dead man's diary. The experiment was a failure. The relief ship arrived to find only one person alive upon the Island, and she a woman, an Esquimaux seamstress whom the adventurers had taken with them. Lorne Knight lay still unburied in the tent, having written up his diary almost to the last. Ada Blackjack, the Esquimaux woman, dictated an account of their last weeks together, telling how she trapped foxes to get the dying man fresh meat. She did her best, she said. Doubt was thrown upon her narrative in the American Press when first the details of the expedition were known.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The adventure of Wrangel Island. To get started finding The adventure of Wrangel Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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