Schwatka's Search

A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849–92) became interested in the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the American Geographical Society, Schwatka sa...

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Main Author: Gilder, William Henry
Format: Book
Language:unknown
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
Subjects:
Arctic
Stefansson
inuit
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476783
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781107476783 2024-06-09T07:43:39+00:00 Schwatka's Search Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records Gilder, William Henry 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476783 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108074902 9781107476783 monograph 2014 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476783 2024-05-15T13:12:39Z A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849–92) became interested in the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the American Geographical Society, Schwatka sailed in 1878 with five others in search of written records, believed to be deposited in cairns. A soldier turned journalist, William Henry Gilder (1838–1900) accompanied Schwatka and published this illustrated account in 1882. Their sledge journey with a party of twelve Inuit was at that time the longest on record. No documents were found, but the expedition did discover artefacts and graves of Franklin's men. Schwatka concluded that no scientific results from Franklin existed. In his adoption of Inuit techniques for safe travel in the Arctic, he preceded Vilhjalmur Stefansson by many decades. Book Arctic inuit Cambridge University Press Arctic Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) Cambridge
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description A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849–92) became interested in the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the American Geographical Society, Schwatka sailed in 1878 with five others in search of written records, believed to be deposited in cairns. A soldier turned journalist, William Henry Gilder (1838–1900) accompanied Schwatka and published this illustrated account in 1882. Their sledge journey with a party of twelve Inuit was at that time the longest on record. No documents were found, but the expedition did discover artefacts and graves of Franklin's men. Schwatka concluded that no scientific results from Franklin existed. In his adoption of Inuit techniques for safe travel in the Arctic, he preceded Vilhjalmur Stefansson by many decades.
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