BOOK REVIEW Review of The last of the Arctic voyages. Being a narrative
Franklin might be regarded as the most tragic one. He was appointed the commander of a well-organized Arctic expedition in 1845, equipped with all that should be needed for surviving in the frozen wilderness, included two ships loaded with a thousand books and three years’ worth of food supplies. Hi...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.637.53 2023-05-15T14:53:59+02:00 BOOK REVIEW Review of The last of the Arctic voyages. Being a narrative The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.637.53 http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/23457/pdf_1/ en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.637.53 http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/23457/pdf_1/ Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/23457/pdf_1/ text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:46:14Z Franklin might be regarded as the most tragic one. He was appointed the commander of a well-organized Arctic expedition in 1845, equipped with all that should be needed for surviving in the frozen wilderness, included two ships loaded with a thousand books and three years’ worth of food supplies. His order was to sail through and to map the North-west Passage. But he never returned with his men. Their fate will forever be a mystery. Though there were reports on some of his men from indigenous people in the years after, the greatest mystery is what caused the deaths of Franklin and his men. One hundred and forty years later, in 1997, one of many discovery expeditions concluded that blade-cut marks on the bones of some of the crew found on King William Island proved the rumours to be true, that the Franklin Text Arctic King William Island North West Passage Unknown Arctic King William Island ENVELOPE(-97.418,-97.418,69.168,69.168) William Island ENVELOPE(-130.703,-130.703,54.035,54.035) |
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Franklin might be regarded as the most tragic one. He was appointed the commander of a well-organized Arctic expedition in 1845, equipped with all that should be needed for surviving in the frozen wilderness, included two ships loaded with a thousand books and three years’ worth of food supplies. His order was to sail through and to map the North-west Passage. But he never returned with his men. Their fate will forever be a mystery. Though there were reports on some of his men from indigenous people in the years after, the greatest mystery is what caused the deaths of Franklin and his men. One hundred and forty years later, in 1997, one of many discovery expeditions concluded that blade-cut marks on the bones of some of the crew found on King William Island proved the rumours to be true, that the Franklin |
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