Narrative of the North Polar expedition
Subtitle: U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding
By: edited under the direction of the Hon. G.M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, by Rear-Admiral C.H. Davis, U.S.N.
Contributors: Tyson, George E. (George Emory), 1829-1906, contributor; Chester, Hubbard C., d. 1889?, contributor; Bryan, Richard W. D., contributor; Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888, illustrator; Schumann, Emil, illustrator; Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917, illustrator; Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913, illustrator; Nichols, Henry Hobart, 1816-1887, engraver; United States. Navy Department
Series: U.S. Naval observation -- 1876; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; American; Travel; Polaris (Ship)
Description: This narrative has been prepared from official papers and from journals of the officers and men of the Expedition, as well as from valuable private contributions acknowledged in the text. The thread of the story of the Polaris has been drawn chiefly from a compilation made by Mr. R. W. D. Bryan, the Astronomer of the Expedition; the incidents of the ice-floe party have been furnished by the journals and note-books of Geo. E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator, and of others with him on the floe, and by the testimony given before the board organized by the Secretary of the Navy, June 5, 1873.
Notes: Wood engravings painted in oil by Mr. H. J. Morgan, from original sketches by Mr. Emil Schumann and Dr. Emil Bessels; photographed on wood by Mr. T. W. Smillie, and engraved by Mr. H. H. Nichols.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Table of contents: title: Appendix: Instructions of the National Academy of Sciences; title: Correspondence between the British Admiralty and the United States Navy Department in relation to the stores left by the Polaris expedition on the west coast of Greenland; title: Journals of Mr. H.C. Chester and Captain Geo. E. Tyson while on boat-journeys, June-July, 1872 [condensed by R. W. D. Bryan]; title: Journals used in the preparation of the Narrative of the Polaris expedition.