Arctic Miscellanies : A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search
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Format
Paperback / softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108074790
ISBN-13
9781108074797
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2014
Print length
378 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Historical geographyHistorical geography
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Published in 1852, this book is a collection of articles written by naval officers and men while searching for the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. Often light-hearted and entertaining, the pieces were contributions, by Sir John Ross and others, to the Aurora Borealis, a ship's newspaper.
In 1850, a small squadron of British naval vessels, under the command of Horatio Austin, sought to locate the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. The ships were trapped in ice by September 1850 and the men were forced to endure the forbidding Arctic winter, finally returning to England in October 1851. This book, published in 1852 and reissued here in the second edition that quickly followed the first, is a collection of articles which appeared in the Aurora Borealis, a newspaper edited by the surgeon James John Louis Donnet (1816–1905) aboard HMS Assistance. It features contributions from the likes of Sir John Ross, Leopold McClintock, fellow officers and several crew members. Despite the serious nature of the mission and the difficulties of the Arctic conditions, the contributions are often light-hearted, making this work a colourful reflection of life on a polar expedition.
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