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John Rae s Arctic Correspondence 1844 1855
Author | : John Rae |
Publsiher | : TouchWood Editions |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781771510844 |
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Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813-1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845. Based on evidence given to him by local Inuit, Rae determined that Franklin's crew had resorted to cannibalism in their final, desperate days. Seen as maligning a national hero, Rae was shunned by British society. This collection of personal correspondence--reissued here for the first time since its original publication in 1953--illuminates the details of Rae's expeditions through his own words. The letters offer a glimpse into Rae's daily life, his ideas, musings, and troubles. Prefaced by the original, thorough introduction detailing his early life, John Rae's Arctic Correspondence is a crucial resource for any Arctic enthusiast. This new edition features a foreword by researcher and Arctic enthusiast Ken McGoogan, the award-winning author of eleven books, including Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae (HarperCollins, 2002).
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Author | : John Rae,Edwin Ernest Rich,Alice Margaret Johnson,Hudson's Bay Record Society |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
ISBN | : OCLC:222418056 |
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The Arctic Journals of John Rae
Author | : John Rae |
Publsiher | : TouchWood Editions |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781927129746 |
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Collects the writings of Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae who played a key role in mapping out the North.
John Rae Arctic Explorer
Author | : John Rae,William Barr |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781772123326 |
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John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 miles (2,494 kilometres) of Arctic coastline; he is undoubtedly one of the Arctic’s greatest explorers, yet today his significance is all but lost. John Rae, Arctic Explorer is an annotated version of Rae’s unfinished autobiography. William Barr has extended Rae’s previously unpublished manuscript and completed his story based on Rae’s reports and correspondence—including reaction to his revelations about the Franklin Expedition. Barr’s meticulously researched, long overdue presentation of Rae’s life and legacy is an immensely valuable addition to the literature of Arctic exploration.
Arctic Hell Ship
Author | : William Barr |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0888644728 |
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In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hell-Ship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the steadily worsening relations between Collinson and his officers. William Barr has based his research on a wide range of original archival documents, and the book is illustrated with a selection of vivid paintings by the ship's assistant surgeon, Edward Adams.
Dr John Rae
Author | : Robert L. Richards |
Publsiher | : Whitby, North Yorkshire : Caedmon |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037025403 |
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Biography. Includes accounts of Rae's work as a surgeon at Moose Factory, 1834-44 and accounts of various arctic expeditions.
John Rae s Correspondence with the Hudson s Bay Company on Arctic Exploration 1844 1855
Author | : Hudson's Bay Record Society,John Rae |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3611555 |
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The Gates of Hell
Author | : Andrew D. Lambert |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300154863 |
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From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John Franklin. Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.