From Exploration to Publication: The Evolution of a 19th-Century Arctic Narrative

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: MacLaren, I.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Back; Sir George; 1796-1878; Barrow; Sir John; Exploration; Explorers; Franklin; 1786-1847; History; Murray; John II; 1778-1843; John III; 1808-1892; John; d. 1793; Publishing; Terror (Ship); Canadian Arctic; Northwest Passage; Arctic; Baie d'Hudson; Baie-d'Hudson; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Retour; Northwest passage; Passage du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64325

Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as to call into question the customary straightforward equation that readers draw between explorers' eyewitness experience and the narrative account of them, issued some time after their return to...