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В 1845 г. на поиски Северо-Западного прохода - морского пути через Северный Ледовитый океан вдоль северного берега Северной Америки через Канадский Арктический архипелаг -...
The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: In Search of Franklin and His Companions
Фрэнсис Леопольд Мак-Клинток
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(0)In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of one hundred and twenty-eight men never returned.
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In the Arctic Seas - A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions
Фрэнсис Леопольд Мак-Клинток
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(0)The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and h...
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.
Canada’s master storyteller retu...
Covering the entire period of exploration from the expedition of William Edward Perry in 1818 to that of Robert Peary in a single volume, Pierre Berton has written a revis...
In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately jumped to the concl...
In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world, and was probably the best traveled woman of her d...
Jane Franklin (1792–1875) became well known in the middle of the nineteenth century for her tireless campaign to discover the fate of the lost Arctic expedition led by her...
The disappearance of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition of 1845 led to many rescue attempts, some by the British government, and some by private individuals. This short...
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, ...
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, fascina...
When Sir John Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, it was his adventurouswife, Jane Franklin, who kept the search for him alive and, as a result, contributedmore ...
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see t...
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific re...
Relics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845
Garth Walpole, Russell A. Potter
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(0)Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until n...
Based on a series of letters written by Franklin expedition officer James Fitzjames -- journals which were only recently discovered in a Scottish attic after lying unsuspe...
Schwatka's Search - Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records
William H. Gilder, John Knox Laughton
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(0)In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) embarked on his third and final expedition into the Canadian Arctic to force the Nort...
Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition’s battle to survive against the odds. It...
Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
Heather Davis-Fisch
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(1)In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between m...
Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism)...