«What the nation would not do, a woman did»: Lady Franklin e l’esplorazione artica
In February 1845 Sir John Franklin was given the command of a naval expedition to find a Northwest Passage in Canada and he set sail on the Erebus, with a three-year supply of provisions: when, in 1848, the expedition had not returned, Lady Jane Franklin was personally involved in the organization o...
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2022
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Online Access: | http://books.openedition.org/ledizioni/10690 |