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Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions - A Narrative Showing the Progress of the British Enterprise for the Discovery of the North-West Passage during the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions - A Narrative Showing the Progress of the British Enterprise for the Discovery of the North-West Passage during the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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In May 1845, the famous Arctic explorer John Franklin (1786-1847)
embarked on another attempt to find the elusive North-West Passage.
He never returned from this voyage, and was last seen by whalers in
Baffin Bay in July 1845. Some thirty rescue missions were launched
between 1847 and 1859 to find the missing men. Franklin was not the
first explorer to make the dangerous voyage to find the route
connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, and journalist Peter Lund
Simmonds (1814-97) draws from a wide range of reports and
publications about these expeditions in his history of the search
for the North-West Passage, published in 1851. The detailed account
also includes descriptions of the many missions to find Franklin,
and this second edition was published later in the same year as the
first in order to include updated reports on the progress of his
rescue.
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