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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth - Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth - Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the
private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in
May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful
expedition to the Arctic. The letters of the crew and their
correspondents begin with the journey's inception and early
planning, going on to recount the ships' departure from the river
Thames, their progress up the eastern coast of Great Britain to
Stromness in Orkney, and the crew's exploits as far as the
Whalefish Islands off the western coast of Greenland, from where
the ships forever departed the society that sent them forth. As the
realization dawned that something was amiss, heartfelt letters to
the missing were sent with search expeditions; those letters,
returned unread, tell poignant stories of hope. Assembled
completely and conclusively from extensive archival research,
including in far-flung family and private collections, the
correspondence allows the reader to peer over the shoulders of
these men, to experience their excitement and anticipation, their
foolhardiness, and their fears. The Franklin expedition continues
to excite enthusiasts and scholars worldwide. May We Be Spared to
Meet on Earth provides new insights into the personalities of those
on board, the significance of the voyage as they saw it, and the
dawning awareness of the possibility that they would never return
to British shores or their families.
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