Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions : A Narrative Showing the Progress of the British Enterprise for the Discovery of the North-West Passage during the Nineteenth Century
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108048293
ISBN-13
9781108048293
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 7th, 2012
Print length
314 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 21.50 x 2.40 cms
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A history of the search for the North-West Passage by journalist Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–97), published and updated in 1851, which includes details of the many missions launched to find Arctic explorer John Franklin (1786–1847), who went missing during an 1845 expedition to find the elusive sea route.
In May 1845, the famous Arctic explorer John Franklin (1786–1847) embarked on another attempt to find the elusive North-West Passage. He never returned from this voyage, and was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. Some thirty rescue missions were launched between 1847 and 1859 to find the missing men. Franklin was not the first explorer to make the dangerous voyage to find the route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, and journalist Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–97) draws from a wide range of reports and publications about these expeditions in his history of the search for the North-West Passage, published in 1851. The detailed account also includes descriptions of the many missions to find Franklin, and this second edition was published later in the same year as the first in order to include updated reports on the progress of his rescue.
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