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 Century by Peter Lund Simmonds (Paperback, 2012)
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781108048293
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114040984
Product Key Features
Author
Peter Lund Simmonds
Publication Name
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 Century
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
314 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
400g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Lund Simmonds
Series Title
Cambridge Library Collection-Polar Exploration
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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