Arctic Voyage to Baffin''s Bay and Lancaster Sound - In Search of Friends With Sir John Franklin

First published in 1850, this short first-hand account of an Arctic rescue mission reveals the dangers encountered in forbidding conditions.

List of contents

Preface; Chapters 1-5.

Summary

First published in 1850, this short account by Robert Anstruther Goodsir (1823–95) describes the 1849 mission in search of Sir John Franklin's missing Arctic expedition, on which his brother, Harry Goodsir, died. The dangers encountered in forbidding conditions are described in great detail, illuminating mid-nineteenth-century Arctic sea travel.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Anstruther Goodsir, Goodsir Robert Anstruther
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2014
• EAN: 9781108071659
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07165-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Arctic Ocean