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 CenturyCambridge University Press, 2012 M06 7 - 314 páginas 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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Captain John Rosss Voyage in the Isabella and Alexander | 11 |
Parrys First Voyage in the Hecla and Grzper 181920 50 | 20 |
Franklins First Land Expedition 181921 | 35 |
Claverings Voyage to Spitzbergen and Greenland in | 84 |
Parrys Third Voyage in the Hecla and Fwy 182425 | 87 |
Franklins Second Land Expedition 182526 | 93 |
Captain John Rosss Second Voyage in the Victory 182933 | 107 |
Captain Backs Land Journey in search of Ross 183335 | 118 |
Captain Sir John Franklins Last Expedition in the Erebus | 140 |
The Government and Private Searching Expeditions | 211 |
Voyage of the transport North Star 1849 | 219 |
Voyage of the Plover and Boat Expeditions under Commander | 233 |
Voyage of Captain Sir John Ross in the Felix private | 242 |
Remarkable Voyage of the private ship Pmnce Albert under | 266 |
PAGE | 279 |
Backs Voyage in the Terror up Hudsons Strait 1836 | 132 |
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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN & THE ARCTIC P. L. (Peter Lund) 1814-1897 Simmonds Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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