Author: Great Britain. Admiralty. Arctic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Inquire Into and Report on the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin
Author: Great Britain. Admiralty. Arctic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Relics of the Franklin Expedition
Author: Garth WalpolePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476627126
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own--photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London. This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Author: Paul WatsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book Review Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led one of the discovery expeditions, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story and reveals how a combination of faith in Inuit knowledge and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
Author: David C. WoodmanPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.
The Journey to the Polar Sea
Author: John FranklinPublisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822
Author: John FranklinPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596051558
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Sir John Franklin's Narrative of the Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 recounts a hair-raising adventure of the "Golden Age of Discovery," the period from 1800 to 1847 when sailing ships from aroun Franklin entered the Royal Navy at the age of 14, went on his first exploratory voyage to Australia (1801-03), and served in the battles of Trafalgar (1805) and New Orleans (1814). He was co-commander of an Arctic expedition of 1818 that sought to reac In September 1846, during his final expedition, he became trapped in the ice in Victoria Strait, off King William Island (the midpoint between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans), which culminated, in April 1848, in the deaths of Franklin and 23 explorers AUTHOR BIO: Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), English rear admiral and explorer, is credited with expanding our geographical knowledge of the Canadian Arctic and adding greatly to the literature of exploration.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal geographical Society
Author: Second Supplement to the Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: John MurrayTables and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description