Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions PDF

Author: Sir John Franklin

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780803268678

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In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the Erebus and the Terror, set out in search of the Northwest Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many years. Franklin and his crew inspired a spate of books on exploration in the nineteenth century, and interest in his expedition has revived with the recent discovery of the bodies of several of its members, perfectly preserved by ice for nearly a century and half. Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, originally published in 1859, is Franklin's own record of his earlier explorations that put the high arctic on the map, and includes his last letter and reports tracing the expedition's last movements. He describes the daily progress of his two overland expeditions from 1818 to 1827, which covered a thousand miles between the Great Slave Lake and the Arctic Ocean and charted fourteen hundred miles of coastline between Cape Beechey in present-day Alaska and Bathurst Inlet, to the north of Hudson Bay. It is a narrative filled with the exhilarating strangeness of everything about the Far North and unimaginable hardship endured heroically. Bil Gilbert's introduction is informed by a first-hand feeling for what Franklin was up against. Several years ago he followed much of the explorer's route, an experience that is described in Our Nature (Nebraska, 1986).

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions PDF

Author: John Franklin

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9781295593477

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Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions; Or, the Adventures of Sir John Franklin

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions; Or, the Adventures of Sir John Franklin PDF

Author: Sir John Franklin

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781230376820

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... warm, but dark clouds overspread the sky. Our men now began to find their burdens very oppressive, and were much fatigued by this day's march, but did not complain. One of them was lame from an inflammation in the knee. Heavy rain commenced at midnight, and continued without intermission until five in the morning, when it was succeeded by snow "on the wind changing to north-west, which soon increased to a violent gale. As we had nothing to eat, and were destitute of the means of making a fire, we remained in our beds all the day; but the covering of our blankets was insufficient to prevent us from feeling the severity of the frost, and suffering inconvenience from the drifting of the snow into our tents. There was no abatement of the storm the next day; our tents were completely frozen, and the snow had drifted around them to a depth of three feet, and even on the inside there was a covering of several inches on our blankets. Our suffering from cold, in a comfortless canvass tent in such weather, with the temperature at 20, and without fire, will easily be imagined; it was, however, less than that which we felt from hunger. The morning of the 7th cleared up a little, but the wind was still strong, and the weather extremely cold. From the unusual continuance of the storm, we feared the winter had set in with all its rigor, and that by longer delay we should only be exposed to an accumulation of difficulties; we therefore prepared for our journey, although we were in a very unfit condition for starting, being weak from fasting, and our garments stiffened by the frost. We had no means of making a fire to thaw them, the moss, at all times difficult to kindle, being now covered with ice and snow. A considerable time was consumed in packing up...

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions: A Narrative of the Explorations and Adventures of Sir John Franklin

Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions: A Narrative of the Explorations and Adventures of Sir John Franklin PDF

Author: Sir John Franklin

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9781378548738

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