George Back (1796-1878)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Neatby, L.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Artists; Back; Sir George; 1796-1878; Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Mapping; Survival; Back River; Nunavut; Bathurst Inlet region; Coppermine River; N.W.T./Nunavut; Great Slave Lake region; N.W.T; Hudson Bay; Arctic; Indian; Hudson; Great Slave Lake; Bathurst Inlet; eskimo*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65304

George Back, British admiral and arctic explorer, was born in 1796 and joined the Navy in 1808. At the age of thirteen he was wounded, made a prisoner of war, and lodged in the French fortress of Verdun. He passed several years of captivity by devoting himself to the study of drawing and mathematics...