Author: Henry Duff TraillPublisher:
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The life of Sir John Franklin, R. N.
Author: Henry Duff TraillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N
Author: Henry Duff TraillPublisher:
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages :
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Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: The quadrupeds
Author: Sir John RichardsonPublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin. ... A Narrative of the Circumstances and Causes which Led to the Failure of the Searching Expeditions Sent by Government and Others for the Rescue of Sir John Franklin
Author: Sir John RossPublisher: London : Longmans, Green, Brown & Longmans
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22
Author: John FranklinPublisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Speaker
Author: Searching for Franklin
Author: Ken McGooganPublisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 1771623691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discovering the Northwest Passage. This book, McGoogan's sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation, and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition? The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror—located in 2014 and 2016—promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin’s expeditions, including the explorer’s lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of traveling to relevant locations, visiting the graves of dead sailors, and experiencing the Arctic—one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet.
After the Lost Franklin Expedition
Author: Peter BaxterPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526727382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A historian examines a disastrous, Victorian-era expedition in the Canadian Arctic, a shocking revelation, and the celebrity fallout that followed. The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalized generations of historians, archaeologists, and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace, and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain’s history of polar exploration. In the aftermath of the crew’s disappearance, Lady Jane Franklin, Sir John’s widow, maintained a crusade to secure her husband’s reputation, imperiled alongside him and his crew in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. Lady Franklin was an uncommon woman for her age, a socially and politically astute figure who attacked anyone whom she viewed as a threat to her husband’s legacy. Meanwhile, John Rae, an explorer and employee of the Hudson Bay Company, recovered deeply disturbing information from the Expedition. His shocking conclusions embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Lady Franklin which led to the ruin of his reputation and career. Against the background of Victorian society and the rise of the explorer celebrity, we learn of Lady Franklin’s formidable grit to honor her husband’s legacy; of John Rae being discredited and his eventual downfall, despite later being proven right. It is a fascinating assessment of the aftermath of the Franklin Expedition and its legacy.
Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Frédéric RegardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
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