Schwatka's Search (Esprios Classics)
William H Gilder
Schwatka’s Search (Esprios Classics)
William H Gilder
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William Henry Gilder (August 16, 1838 - February 5, 1900), was an American soldier, journalist, explorer and writer. From 1871 to 1877, he was managing editor of the Newark Register and from 1878 to 1880 was second in command on the expedition of Frederick Schwatka to King William Land in search of the relics of Sir John Franklin. In 1883 he was in Tongking as a war correspondent during the French-Annamese conflict and in 1884 visited the region of the earthquakes in Spain. On his expeditions and travels he was a correspondent of the New York Herald. He published Schwatka’s Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records (1881) and Ice-Pack and Tundra (1883).
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