A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole
Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796–1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Tr...
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Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107476967 |