Relics of the Franklin Expedition - Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845

Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own--photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London.
This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used viii

Editor's Preface

Original Introduction

1.¿The Material Biography of Relics: A Physical and Spiritual Relationship

2.¿The Continued Search for Relics, 1851-1854

3.¿Examining the Relics

4.¿The Material and Social Value of the Relics

5.¿The Relics: Their Past, Present and Future

Conclusion

Appendices:

deleteA: Locations of Relics

deleteB: Relics at the National Maritime Museum

deleteC: Relics with Ownership Ascribed

deleteD: Relics Recorded and Left by McClintock, 1859

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index 227

About the author

Garth Walpole was born in 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania. He earned a degree in history and archaeology at the University of Bangor in Wales, where his fascination with the lost Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin began. He died April 7, 2015, not long after completing this book.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Potter, Garth Walpole, Walpole Garth
• Assisted by: Russell Potter (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2017
• EAN: 9781476667188
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6718-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Ships; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, maritime history, Arctic regions, Ships and boats: general interest, Ships & boats: general interest, Underwater Archaeology, europe, polar