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Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski - With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, As Far As the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst (Paperback)
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Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski - With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, As Far As the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, British Arctic exploration
became defined by the search for the missing expedition of Sir John
Franklin, who had in fact perished in desperate circumstances in
1847. As a newly qualified naval officer, William Hulme Hooper
(1827-54) took part in one of the many expeditions which sought to
find Franklin. Embarking in 1848, the crew of HMS Plover spent
three winters in the Arctic, with tragic consequences for Hooper's
health. On his return, perhaps realising time was short, he wrote
this illustrated account of his travels, and saw it published the
year before he died at the age of only twenty-seven. The work is of
particular interest because of its detailed descriptions of the
Bering Sea region, Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. Especially
noteworthy are the observations on the way of life of the
indigenous Chukchi people, whom Hooper called 'Tuski'.
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