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Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot, with his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin (Paperback)
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Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot, with his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin (Paperback)
Series: Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot, with his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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Joseph Ren Bellot (1826 53) was a French naval officer whose
travels took him from Africa to the Arctic before his tragic death
at the age of 27. In 1851 he joined a British expedition to search
for the missing explorer Sir John Franklin (1786 1847), whose
expedition to find the North-West Passage was last heard of in July
1845. Although the voyage was unsuccessful in its search, it
explored previously unknown areas of the Arctic. Bellot kept
extensive notes about his journey in this remote region; they
originally appeared in French in 1854 and were translated into
English in 1855 and published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains a
biography of Bellot, who was regarded as a hero in both France and
Britain, and the first part of his journal, which describes the
ship's departure from Scotland, their arrival in Greenland, and
their encounters with the indigenous people there.
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