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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 (Paperback)
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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First published in 1823, this book narrates the disastrous
expedition undertaken by Naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John
Franklin up the Coppermine River in North America. Franklin (1786
1847) and nineteen others set out in 1819, initially with guides
from the Hudson Bay Company until the journey continued overland,
when they relied on Native Americans as guides. The party ran short
of supplies and, lacking adequate knowledge for survival, were
reduced to eating lichens. One of the party was suspected of eating
the bodies of the nine men who had died of exposure and starvation,
and two more were killed in a subsequent skirmish. The book was
immediately popular on publication and quickly became a travel
literature classic. Franklin undertook a second, more successful
Arctic journey (the account of which is also published in this
series) before setting out on his final expedition of 1845, which
ended in tragedy and enduring mystery.
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