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The Greely expedition

Call Number

  • DVD 919.8 G794 (CEN)

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Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Narrated by Michael Murphy.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : PBS Distribution, c2011.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a 'sheer blank.' Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2011.

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