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Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 (Paperback)
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Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) joined the Navy at the age of
fourteen and saw action at Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Between those
battles, he circumnavigated Australia with his uncle, Matthew
Flinders; he became famous after his first major expedition to
northern Canada in 1819 22, although it resulted in the deaths of
over half of his men. Accounts of both of these voyages are also
reissued in this series. Franklin returned to the Arctic in 1825,
and this, his second book, describes that more successful
endeavour. Published in 1828, it records the expedition's planning,
route, scientific observations, and the mapping of over 1200 miles
of Canada's northern coastline. The party included two artists, and
their work is reproduced in over thirty engravings. Franklin was
later posted to the Mediterranean and Tasmania, but in 1845
embarked on his disastrous third expedition to the North-West
Passage, during which he and his entire crew were lost.
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