Hampton Sides is the author of the best-selling histories Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
ILLUSTRATIONS
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
The wild animal hoax in the New York Herald, November 9, 1874
The Lysistrata, one of Bennett’s many yachts
Dr. August Petermann
Magazine artist’s depiction of John Cleves Symmes’s popular hollow-earth theory
The “thermometric gateways” to the pole, as envisioned by Silas Bent in 1872
George and Emma De Long
George and Emma De Long’s daughter, Sylvie
Charles Chipp, executive officer
Dr. James Ambler, ship’s surgeon
Lt. George De Long, expedition commander
George Melville, engineer
John Danenhower, navigator
Jerome Collins, meteorologist, New York Herald correspondent
Raymond Newcomb, naturalist
William Nindemann, quartermaster
William Dunbar, ice pilot
The Jeannette in Le Havre, France, in 1878, just prior to her voyage to San Francisco
The Jeannette’s sinking, by the popular French artist George Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange
De Long and his men struggle over the ice
De Long and his men reach open water
Siberia’s Lena River delta as captured by satellite in 2000
Some of the Jeannette crew posed for this photograph in Yakutsk, Siberia, in December 1881
Rear Admiral George Melville, photographed in 1910
The Jeannette monument on the grounds of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
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James Gordon Bennett, Jr., caricatured as an older man, from Vanity Fair
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Julius LeBlanc Stewart painting depicting life aboard Bennett’s yacht Namouna
Bennett Collection, International Herald Tribune Archives
Newport Casino lawn tennis match, with Bennett in foreground
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Henry Morton Stanley
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The young inventor Thomas Edison
Stanford University Newspaper Archives
The Corliss steam engine from the Philadelphia Centennial World’s Fair, 1876”
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John Muir
Vallejo Maritime Gallery/ Newport Beach, California
The abandonment of the Jeannette, painting by James Gale Tyler, 1883
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Gerardus Mercator’s map of the Arctic, showing an open polar sea, circa 1600
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Map of the mythic “Ultima Thule,” by Olaus Magnus, 1539
Emma De Long Papers
Sergey Gorshkov
The author pictured with an ancient woolly mammoth tusk on Wrangel Island
Courtesy of the author
The author at the Jeanette memorial on America Mountain, in Russia’s Lena Delta
ALSO BY HAMPTON SIDES
Hellhound on His Trail
Blood and Thunder
Americana
Ghost Soldiers
Stomping Grounds