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Arctic Searching Expedition - A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin (Paperback)
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Arctic Searching Expedition - A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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The surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer Sir John Richardson
(1787 1865) was a lifelong friend to his former commander Sir John
Franklin, with whom he had twice travelled to seek the North-West
Passage. Following two years of silence from Franklin after he
embarked on his 1845 expedition to the Arctic, Richardson set out
on his own voyage in the hope of finding his comrade. Originally
published in 1851, this two-volume work charts the journey which
would inevitably fail in its ambition: Franklin, unknown to
Richardson, had already died in June 1847. Volume 2 begins with
detailed descriptions of the aboriginal Chipewyan and Cree peoples.
A thorough appendix comprises observations on physical geography,
climatology and the geographical distribution of plants, and
includes vocabularies for the dialects encountered during the
mission. The text ends, Richardson having returned, with the hope
that future expeditions may yet trace 'so many gallant victims to
science'.
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