In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the
"Erebus" and the "Terror," set out in search of the Northwest
Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North
America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many
years. Franklin and his crew inspired a spate of books on
exploration in the nineteenth century, and interest in his
expedition has revived with the recent discovery of the bodies of
several of its members, perfectly preserved by ice for nearly a
century and half. "Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions," originally
published in 1859, is Franklin's own record of his earlier
explorations that put the high arctic on the map, and includes his
last letter and reports tracing the expedition's last movements. He
describes the daily progress of his two overland expeditions from
1818 to 1827, which covered a thousand miles between the Great
Slave Lake and the Arctic Ocean and charted fourteen hundred miles
of coastline between Cape Beechey in present-day Alaska and
Bathurst Inlet, to the north of Hudson Bay. It is a narrative
filled with the exhilarating strangeness of everything about the
Far North and unimaginable hardship endured heroically.
Bil Gilbert's introduction is informed by a first-hand feeling for
what Franklin was up against. Several years ago he followed much of
the explorer's route, an experience that is described in "Our
Nature "(Nebraska, 1986).
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 1988 |
First published: |
1988 |
Authors: |
John Franklin
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Introduction by: |
Bil Gilbert
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
480 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-6867-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
General
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LSN: |
0-8032-6867-X |
Barcode: |
9780803268678 |
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