The Search for Sir John Franklin
Author: Sir Allen W. Young
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 62
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Author: Sir Allen W. Young
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gillian Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1472948718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the crews of two whaling ships in Baffin Bay in July 1845, just before they entered the labyrinth of the Arctic Archipelago. The loss of this British hero and his crew, and the many rescue expeditions and searches that followed, captured the public imagination, but the mystery surrounding the expedition's fate only deepened as more clues were found. How did Franklin's final expedition end in tragedy? What happened to the crew? The thrilling discoveries in the Arctic of the wrecks of Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016 have brought the events of 170 years ago into sharp focus and excited new interest in the Franklin expedition. This richly illustrated book is an essential guide to this story of heroism, endurance, tragedy and dark desperation.
Author: Anders Knudsen
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778724209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mystery for more than a hundred years, British naval officer Sir John Franklin and his entire crew disappeared on his famous voyage to find the Northwest Passge in the mid-1800s. Learn about the life of this driven explorer, the Arctic voyages that would make him famous, and what really happened to Franklin's party.
Author: Michael Palin
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1771644427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage. Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin’s quest for the holy grail of navigation—a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014. Palin travels across the world—from Tasmania to the Falkland Islands and the Canadian Arctic—to offer a firsthand account of the terrain and conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her doomed final crew. Delving into the research, he describes the intertwined careers of the two men who shared the ship’s journeys: Ross, the organizational genius who mapped much of the Antarctic coastline and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there; and Franklin, who, at the age of sixty and after a checkered career, commanded the ship on its last disastrous venture. Expertly researched and illustrated with maps, photographs, paintings, and engravings, Erebus is an evocative account of two journeys: one successful and forgotten, the other tragic yet unforgettable.
Author: Elisha Kent Kane
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell A. Potter
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0773599622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arctic’s greatest mysteries. In compelling and accessible prose, Russell Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared research and ideas have led to a fuller understanding of the Franklin crew’s final months. Illustrated with numerous images and maps from the last two centuries, Finding Franklin recounts the more than fifty searches for traces of his ships and crew, and the dedicated, often obsessive, men and women who embarked on them. Potter discusses the crucial role that Inuit oral accounts, often cited but rarely understood, played in all of these searches, and continue to play to this day, and offers historical and cultural context to the contemporary debates over the significance of Franklin’s achievement. While examination of HMS Erebus will undoubtedly reveal further details of this mystery, Finding Franklin assembles the stories behind the myth and illuminates what is ultimately a remarkable decades-long discovery.
Author: Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield
Publisher: London : T. Harrison
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative of author's expedition to Smith Sound region on board 'Isabel', 1852. (AB 7716).
Author: Charles Richard WELD
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 86
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Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allen William Young
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Published: 1860
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