Download or read book Fury Beach written by Ray Edinger and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring rare photos of 19th-century engravings and lithographs, "Fury Beach" is the true story of Arctic exploration and life among the Inuits.
Download or read book Unravelling the Franklin Mystery written by David C. Woodman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.
Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin s Bay and the Gulf of Boothia written by Sir Albert Hastings Markham and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. This book was released on 1874 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin s Bay and the Gulf of Boothia and an Account of the Rescue of the Crew of the Polaris written by Sir Albert Hastings Markham and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. This book was released on 1874 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Whaling Cruise to Baffin s Bay written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Manual of the Natural History Geology and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Manual of the Natural History Geology and Physics of Greenland and the Neighboring Regions written by Thomas Rupert Jones and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of the Natural History Geology and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions Prepared for the Use of the Arctic Expedition of 1875 Under the Direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society and Edited by T R Jones Together with Instructions Suggested by the Arctic Committee for the Use of the Expedition Etc written by Thomas Rupert JONES and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arctic Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by James Delgado and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
Download or read book The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross Parry Franklin and Mr Belzoni written by John Frederick Dennett and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Franklin Conspiracy written by Jeffrey Blair Latta and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths. Although the expedition did not run out of food, there is clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried two hundred message cylinders with them, yet failed to leave records. Stranger still, an earlier explorer, Thomas Simpson, was reputedly murdered for the "secret of the Northwest Passage." What was this "secret"? The Franklin Conspiracy is an exhaustively researched, compellingly reasoned answer to that question. The result is a shocking saga of conspiracy, cover-up, and unbelievable secrets the.
Download or read book Polar Pioneers written by Maurice James Ross and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage.
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.
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
