Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin

A Narrative of the Circumstances and Causes Which Led to the Failure of the Searching Expeditions Sent by Government and Others for the Rescue of Sir John Franklin

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Paperback, 126 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781108049788
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Cambridge University Press e druk, 2012 9781108049788
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Sir John Ross (1777–1856), the distinguished British naval officer and Arctic explorer, undertook three great voyages to the Arctic regions; accounts of his first and his second voyages are also reissued in this series. (During the latter, his ship was stranded in the unexplored area of Prince Regent Inlet, where Ross and his crew survived by living and eating as the local Inuit did.) In this volume, first published in 1855, the explorer describes his experiences during his third (privately funded) Arctic voyage, undertaken in 1850 as part of the effort to locate the missing expedition led by Sir John Franklin, his close friend. Ross also summarises in partisan style the previous efforts by the Royal Navy to find out what happened to the Erebus and Terror, and is scathing in his account of what he regards as the mismanagement and incompetence of the Admiralty.

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ISBN13:9781108049788
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:126

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Introduction; The Franklin expedition; Appendix.

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