San Francisco Chronicle
The Times (London)
The Vallejo Evening Chronicle
SELECTED ARTICLES
Hanlon, John. “The Cradle of Tennis Was Meant to Be Rocky.” Sports Illustrated, September 2, 1968.
Horch, Frank. “Photographs and Paintings by William Bradford.” American Art Journal 5, no. 2 (November 1973): 61–70.
Houston, Robert B., Jr. “If It Had Been God’s Will: Dr. James M. M. Ambler and the Jeannette Expedition.” Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1986, 16–29.
Kilkenny, Anne-Marie Amy. “Life and Scenery in the Far North: William Bradford’s 1885 Lecture to the American Geographical Society.” American Art Journal 26, no. 1–2 (1994): 106–08.
Lamb, Julia. “ ‘The Commodore’ Enjoyed Life—but N.Y. Society Winced.” Smithsonian, September 1978, 132–40.
Maury, T. B. “The Gateway to the Pole.” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, November 1869.
Tammiksaar, E., N. G. Sukhova, and I. R. Stone. “Hypothesis Versus Fact: August Petermann and Polar Research.” Arctic 52, no. 3 (September 1999): 237–44.
BOOKS
Albanov, Valerian. In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
Anderson, Alun. After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
Baldwin, Hanson. Admiral Death: Twelve Adventures of Men Against the Sea. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 33, History of Alaska, 1730–1885. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1886.
Berens, S. L., and John E. Read. Nansen in the Frozen World. Chicago: National Publishing Co., 1897.
Berton, Pierre. Prisoners of the North. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
Bockstoce, John R. Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
Borneman, Walter R. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Brandt, Anthony. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Cane, André. Hôtes James Gordon Bennett: Hôte Prestigieux et Fantasque de la Côte d’Azur. Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Bernard de Gourcez, 1981.
———. James Gordon Bennett. Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Bernard de Gourcez, 1937.
Carlson, Oliver. The Man Who Made News: James Gordon Bennett. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942.
Caswell, John Edwards. Arctic Frontiers: United States Explorations in the Far North. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.
Clarke, Arthur C. Voice Across the Sea. New York: Harper & Row, 1959.
Crockett, Albert Stevens. When James Gordon Bennett Was Caliph of Bagdad. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1926.
De Long, Emma Wotton. Explorer’s Wife. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
De Long, George W., and Raymond Lee Newcomb. Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1882.
De Long, Thomas A. The De Longs of New York and Brooklyn. Connecticut: Sasco Associates, 1972.
Di Duca, Marc. Lake Baikal: Siberia’s Great Lake. Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, 2010.
Di Robilant, Andrea. Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: Norton, 2007.
Dowdeswell, Julian, and Michael Hambrey. Islands of the Arctic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Ellsberg, Edward. Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette. Connecticut: Flat Hammock, 1938.
Emerson, Charles. The Future History of the Arctic. New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.
Espenhorst, Jurgen. Petermann’s Planet: A Guide to German Hand-atlases and Their Siblings Throughout the World, 1800–1950. Schwerte: Pangaea Verlag, 2003.
Felsch, Philipp. Wie August Petermann: Den Nordpol Erfand. Schweden: Sammlung Luchterhand, 2010.
Figuier, Louis. Earth and Sea, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1870.
Fiske, Stephen. Off-Hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers. New York: Arno Press, 1884.
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830–1857. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Fleming, Fergus. Barrow’s Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy. New York: Grove, 2001.
———. Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole. New York: Grove, 2001.
Frazier, Ian. Travels in Siberia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Frost, Orcutt. Bering: The Russian Discovery of America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Gifford, Bill. Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer. New York: Harcourt, 2007.
Gilder, William Henry. Ice-Pack and Tundra: An Account of the Search for the Jeannette and a Sledge Journey Through Siberia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888.
Gordon, John Steele. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. New York: Perennial, 2002.
Gray, Edward G. The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Gusewelle, C. W. A Great Current Running: The U.S.-Russian Lena River Expedition. Kansas City: Lowell Press, 1994.
Guttridge, Leonard F. Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2000.
———. Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition’s Quest for the North Pole. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986.
Hamilton, Richard F. President McKinley, War and Empire. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Harvey, Miles. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime. New York: Random House, 2000.
Hearn, Chester G. Navy: An Illustrated History. London: Zenith, 2007.
———. Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans. New York: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Heuglin, M. Theodor von, and August Heinrich Petermann. Reisen Nach dem Nordpolarmeer in den Jahren 1870 und 1871. In (drei) Theilen und Einem Wisenschaftlichen Anhang. With a foreword by August Petermann. Braunfdjweig: Drud un Berlag von George Wejtermann, 1872.
Hoehling, A. A. The Jeannette Expedition: An Ill-Fated Journey to the Arctic. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967.
Holland, Clive. Farthest North: Endurance and Adventure in the Quest for the North Pole. London: Robinson, 1994.
Hudson, Frederic. Journalism in the United States: From 1690 to 1872. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873.
Jefferys, C. P. B. Newport: A Concise History. Newport: Newport Historical Society, 2008.
Kalman, Bobbie, and Ken Faris. Arctic Whales and Whaling. New York: Crabtree, 1988.
Karsten, Peter. The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Kennan, George. Siberia and the Exile System. 2 vols. New York: Century Co., 1891.
———. Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival. New York: Skyhorse, 2007.
Kish, George. North-east passage: Adolf Erik Nordenskiold—His Life and Times. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1973.
Kolbert, Elizabeth, ed. The Arctic: An Anthology. London: Granta, 2008.
———, ed. The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.
———. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Laney, Al. Paris Herald: The Incredible Newspaper. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1947.
Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyag
e. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1959.
Larson, Edward J. An Empire of Ice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Lecanu, Gérald. Mémoire en Images: Le Havre. Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire: Alan-Sutton, 1995.
Lessard, Suzannah. The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family. New York: Dial, 1996.
Linder, Chris. Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Littlepage, Dean. Steller’s Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska. Seattle: Mountaineers, 2006.
Loomis, Chauncey C. Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.
Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. New York: Bantam, 1986.
Lot, Arnold S. A Long Line of Ships: Mare Island’s Century of Naval Activity in California. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1954.
Lourie, Peter. Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist. New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.
Markham, Albert Hastings. The Life of Sir Clements R. Markham. London: Murray, 1917.
Matthiessen, Peter. Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856.
McGhee, Robert. The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
McGinniss, Joe. Going to Extremes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
McGoogan, Ken. Fatal Passage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
———. Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008.
Melville, George. In the Lena Delta. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885.
Middleton, Nick. Going to Extremes, London: Channel 4 Books, 2001.
Millard, Candice. The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President. New York: Doubleday, 2011.
Morris, James McGrath. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
Mowat, Farley. The Polar Passion. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1973.
———. The Siberians. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.
Muir, John. The Cruise of the Corwin. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Murphy, David Thomas. German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870–1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North. New York: Modern Library, 1999.
———. The First Crossing of Greenland. London: Birlinn, 1902.
Nichols, Peter. Final Voyage. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.
Niven, Jennifer. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic. New York: Hyperion, 2003.
———. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
Noble, Dennis L., and Truman R. Strobridge. Captain “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2009.
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1882.
Nourse, J. E. American Explorations in the Ice Zones. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1884.
O’Connor, Richard. The Scandalous Mr. Bennett. New York: Doubleday, 1962.
Ovsyanikov, Nikita. Polar Bears: Living with the White Bear. Hong Kong: Voyageur, 1996.
Parry, Richard. Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition. New York: Ballantine, 2001.
Perry, Richard. The Jeannette, and a Complete and Authentic Narrative Encyclopedia of All Voyages and Expeditions to the North Polar Regions. San Francisco: A. Roman, 1883.
Petermann, August Heinrich, and Thomas Milner. The Atlas of Physical Geography. London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1850.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Penguin, 2000.
———. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery; The U.S. Exploring Expedition. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Related Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Potter, Russell A. Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
Rawicz, Slavomir. The Long Walk. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2010.
Riffenburgh, Beau. The Myth of the Explorer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Riordan, Pauline, and Paul Bourget. World Weather Extremes. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Corps of Army Engineers, Engineer Topographic Laboratories, 1985.
Robertson, Charles L. The “International Herald Tribune”: The First Hundred Years. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Robinson, Michael F. The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Sachs, Aaron. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Sale, Richard. The Scramble for the Arctic: Ownership, Exploitation and Conflict in the Far North. London: Frances Lincoln, 2009.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
Seitz, Don C. The James Gordon Bennetts: Father and Son. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928.
Smits, Jan. Petermann’s Maps: Carto-bibliography of the Maps in “Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen,” 1855–1945. Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graaf, 2004.
Smyth, W. H. The Sailor’s Word-Book. London: Conway Maritime, 1991.
Steele, Peter. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic. Vancouver, BC: Raincoast, 2003.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Adventure of Wrangel Island. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
Still, William N., Jr. American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865–1917. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980.
Stross, Randall. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. New York: Three Rivers, 2007.
Tayler, Jeffrey. River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia’s Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny. New York: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Thomas Edison: Life of an Electrifying Man. Minneapolis: Filiquarian Publishing, 2008.
Thubron, Colin. In Siberia. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Toll, Ian W. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. New York: Norton, 2006.
Tyson, George E. Arctic Experiences: Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-Floe. New York: Harper Brothers, 1874. Reprint, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
Vidal, Gore. 1876: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1876.
Wheeler, Sara. The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Williams, Glyn. Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. New York: Allen Lane, 2009.
Williams, Henry Llewellyn. History of the Adventurous Voyage and Terrible Shipwreck of the U.S. Steamer “Jeannette,” in the Polar Seas. New York: A. T. B. De Witt, 1882.
Worster, Donald. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Young, Allen. Cruise of the ‘Pandora.’ Extracts from the Private Journal Kept by Allen Young, Commander of the Expedition. London: Wm. Clowes & Sons, 1876.
Young, Allen William. The Two Voyages of the ‘Pandora’ in 1875 and 1876. London: Edward Stanford, 1879.
PHOTO CREDITS
Portrait of James Gordon Bennett Jr. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
New York Herald Wild Animal Hoax headline. Stanford University Newspaper Archives
Bennett’s yacht. Photo supplied by Peter Stewart, from builder’s souvenir book, www.cl
ydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10784
Dr. August Petermann. Emma De Long Papers
Magazine artist’s depiction of John Cleves Symmes’s popular hollow-earth theory. Emma De Long Papers
The “thermometric gateways” to the pole, as envisioned by Silas Bent. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
George De Long. Emma De Long Papers
Sylvie De Long. Emma De Long Papers
Emma De Long. Emma De Long Papers
Charles Chipp. U.S. Naval Historical Center
Dr. James Ambler. Emma De Long Papers
Lt. George De Long. U.S. Naval Historical Center
George Melville. U.S. Naval Historical Center
John Danenhower. U.S. Naval Historical Center
Jerome Collins. U.S. Naval Historical Center
Raymond Newcomb. U.S. Naval Historical Center
The Jeannette, then known as the Pandora. U.S. Naval Academy Museum
William Nindemann. U.S. Naval Historical Center
William Dunbar. Emma De Long Papers
The Jeannette in Le Havre. U.S. Naval Historical Center
The Jeannette’s sinking, by George Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange. Alexandre Antique Prints
Ice retreat engraving. U.S. Naval Historical Center
Rowboat engraving. U.S. Naval Historical Center
Lena River delta. United States Geological Survey
Some of the crew in Yakutsk, Siberia. U.S. Naval Institute
Rear Admiral George Melville. Wikimedia Commons
The Jeannette monument. U.S. Naval Historical Center
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Wikimedia Commons
Julius LeBlanc Stewart painting, Wikimedia Commons
Newport tennis match, Collection of International Herald Tribune Archives
Henry Morton Stanley, Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Edison, Wikimedia Commons
The Corliss steam engine, Stanford University Newspaper Archives
John Muir, Wikimedia Commons
Painting by James Gale Tyler, Vallejo Maritime Gallery/ Newport Beach, California
Gerardus Mercator’ map, Wikipedia Commons
Map by Olaus Magnus, Wikimedia Commons
George W. De Long’s funeral procession, Emma De Long Papers