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George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an
... See moreHampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
This man:
> Survived a Sioux massacre as a child
> On his own since age 12
> Tracked Apaches as a teen
> Fought in Rhodesia
> Staked claims in the Klondike gold rush
> Assassinated an African chieftain, securing victory for Cecil Rhodes
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He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions