Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal - Or, Eighteen Months in Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin

This 1852 account by naval officer Sherard Osborn (1822-75) describes a mission in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition.

List of contents

Dedication; Preface; Arctic journal; Appendix.

Summary

Naval officer Sherard Osborn (1822–75) commanded the steam vessel Pioneer during Horatio Thomas Austin's 1850–1 mission in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Osborn's compelling eyewitness account, published in 1852, describes the first (and successful) trial of steam in the punishing Arctic conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Sherard Osborn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781108071772
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07177-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales