A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole : Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.N. 1818
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Paperback / Softback
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Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108074987
ISBN-13
9781108074988
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 2014
Print length
382 Pages
Weight
494 grams
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13.80 x 21.60 x 2.60 cms
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Historical geographyHistorical geography
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The naval officer Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) served under John Franklin during the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic. The two ships, Dorothea and Trent, were caught in ice and failed to find a route beyond Spitsbergen. This work, published in 1843, remains the principal account of the expedition.
Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Trent, were sent to find a route via the seas around Spitsbergen. A little north of 80° their progress was halted by ice. Sailing west to Greenland, the Dorothea was seriously damaged and the expedition aborted. Beechey's account remains the principal source for this voyage as neither Franklin nor the overall commander David Buchan published their journals. Beechey's Arctic service equipped him to later command the Blossom in northern waters: his two-volume Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1831) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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