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May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition
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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition,...
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage's significance, and the dawning realization that they might never return.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Russell A. Potter [and four others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (505 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0228013364, 0228011396, 9780228011392, 9780228013365, 9780228013372, 0228013372
- OCLC
- on1302194572
- Includes index.
- Cover -- MAY WE BE SPARED TO MEET ON EARTH -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Anticipation -- 2 Preparation -- 3 Sailing -- 4 London to Stromness -- 5 Stromness to Greenland -- 6 Last Partings -- 7 Letters to the Lost -- Appendices -- A Harry Goodsir's "Zoology from the Arctic Expedition," with a fragment of a letter to Edward Forbes -- B Unattributed Letters in the Press -- C Franklin's Two Official Despatches to the Admiralty -- D A Brief Account of the Role of Steam Power in the Launch of the Expedition -- E A Note on the Proposed Route of the Expedition -- F Capsule Biographies of the Writers of These Letters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and Sources -- Index