![]() ![]() Instead, the Jeannette was locked in a vice of pack ice for two years before its hull was crushed, and the expedition was left to make its way 1,000 miles across more ice and unexplored territory to Siberia-before winter, and before their provisions would run out. Unsurprisingly, this was not their experience. Manned in large part by men who had just missed the “glory” of service in the Civil War, the expedition boasted the latest innovations, including Edison’s lights and Bell’s telephones, and was spurred on by scientific theories that the Kuro Siwo, a Pacific equivalent to the Gulf Stream current, would sweep the ship effortlessly north to a temperate polar sea. The USS Jeannette set off in search of the North Pole in 1879. Armchair explorers, add this to your bookshelf of travel and survival narratives in the cold and lonely north. ![]()
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