Download or read book In the Lena Delta written by George W. Melville and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881 George Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing vessel Jeanette when she finally succumbed to the pack ice off the coast of Siberia in 1881. The entire crew escaped onto the ice with three boats and made for the open sea, only Melville's boat reached the relative safety of the western shore of the Lena River delta.