Author: Francis Egerton Earl of EllesmerePublisher:
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13 letters from Lord Ellesmere, 12 to Lord John Russell and 1 to the Duke of Bedford
Author: Francis Egerton Earl of EllesmerePublisher:
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Languages : en
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4 letters from Lord Houghton, 3 to Lord John Russell and 1 to the Duke of Bedford
Author: Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Autograph letters, chiefly illustrated with portraits ... on sale by John Waller
Author: John Waller (bookseller.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The Gates of Hell
Author: Andrew D. LambertPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John Franklin. Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.
Letters to Lord G. William Russell
Author: Lord George William RussellPublisher:
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Letter (Letter ii-iv) to ... lord John Russell
Author: John CartwrightA Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Letters of Rachel, Lady Russell
Author: Lady Rachel RusselPublisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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14 Letters from Lord Ellesmere, 13 to John Evelyn Denison and 1 to Lady Charlotte Denison
Author: Francis Egerton Earl of EllesmerePublisher:
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