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Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

Autor William Henry Gilder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2014
A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849–92) became interested in the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the American Geographical Society, Schwatka sailed in 1878 with five others in search of written records, believed to be deposited in cairns. A soldier turned journalist, William Henry Gilder (1838–1900) accompanied Schwatka and published this illustrated account in 1882. Their sledge journey with a party of twelve Inuit was at that time the longest on record. No documents were found, but the expedition did discover artefacts and graves of Franklin's men. Schwatka concluded that no scientific results from Franklin existed. In his adoption of Inuit techniques for safe travel in the Arctic, he preceded Vilhjalmur Stefansson by many decades.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108074902
ISBN-10: 1108074901
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: 33 b/w illus. 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Northward; 2. The winter camp; 3. Our dogs; 4. In the sledges; 5. Native witnesses; 6. The midnight sun; 7. Relics; 8. Irving's grave; 9. Arctic costumes; 10. Over melting snows; 11. Amateur Esquimaux; 12. Walrus diet; 13. The return; 14. Famine; 15. Esquimau home-life; 16. Homeward; 17. The graves of the explorers; Index; Appendix.

Descriere

Published in 1882, with maps and engravings, this work recounts the discovery of evidence of the lost Franklin expedition.