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Author : John Franklin
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Download or read book Letter from Sir John Franklin to David Buchan written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letter from Sir John Franklin to James David Forbes written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emile Frédéric de Bray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802028136
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)
Download or read book A Frenchman in Search of Franklin written by Emile Frédéric de Bray and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board Resolute. The ship was bound for the icy waters north of Canada as part of Sir Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron searching for Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language, and only one other account of this particular Franklin search expedition exists. Enseigne-de-vaisseau de Bray, seconded at his own request from the French navy, was something of a rarity among those who made up the search parties: he was not British. (One of his shipmates hoped for the best: 'The Frenchman does not seem an Englishman,' he observed, 'but I suppose he will improve on acquaintance.') As a result de Bray notices and comments on details and incidents his fellow officers would have considered unremarkable. Cape de Bray on the northwest coast of Melville Island commemorates the efforts of this intrepid French officer, who gained the respect of his fellows, was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur by Napoleon III, and was awarded the Arctic Medal by Queen Victoria.
Author : Joseph Banks
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9781860942044
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks written by Joseph Banks and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Joseph Banks was a great Georgian figure. He circumnavigated the world with Captain James Cook on the H.M.S. Endeavor (1768-1771). He took with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of pounds 10,000. They made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in most of the places the H.M.S. Endeavor visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland, in 1772. Later, he settled in London and assembled an enormous herbarium-cum-library. This was remarkable for its size and for the unique material gathered from the Pacific. Banks was elected President of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for 41 years -- the longest anyone has served in that capacity. He was also the Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, which flourished under his control and became greater than any other. He was also an influential privy councilor and advisor to George III and the government. Banks was therefore at the scientific and social centre ofGeorgian life for more than five decades of rapid change. Once established in this position, he developed an enormous, global network of correspondence, using letters to shape events, to further knowledge, and to build an empire. There was almost no aspect too insignificant for his attention: and on matters of importance, his opinion was frequently sought. He has been called the "Fathers of Australia" for his role in establishing and then actively supporting colonies on the continent he visited with Cook. On matters of trade or agriculture, botany or horticulture, exploration or navigation, coinage, drainage and science, his views could hardly be avoided. Yet, he was a warm, authoritativewriter, with a "roiling" prose style. His letters make interesting reading for their variety as well as their insight into both his public and private life. This selection is from the over 5,000 letters which he wrote, and will in
Author : Stephen Zorn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651140
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845 written by Stephen Zorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.
Author : Andrew D. Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154860
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Gates of Hell written by Andrew D. Lambert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John Franklin. Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.
Author : John Franklin
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Download or read book Letter from Sir John Franklin written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Franklin
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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly complete transcriptions of the extant journals kept by John Franklin during his expedition to the unknown northern coast of the North American continent in the years 1819 to 1822"--Introduction.
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Download or read book Letter from Sir John Franklin to Willingham Franklin written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick William Beechey
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole written by Frederick William Beechey and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of expedition in search of North Pole led by D. Buchan in 1818. Sailed to Svalbard, where beset, and put into harbour. Traced pack ice edge towards Greenland. Also includes chronology of early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1902-1906 ... written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Total Pages : 1072 pages
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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany
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Total Pages : 1072 pages
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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 654 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ... written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 154 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Hydrography: 1750-1830 written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
