Robert Randolph Carter - Searching for the Franklin Expedition
| Schrijver: | Robert Randolph Carter |
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| Titel: | Searching for the Franklin Expedition |
| ISBN: | 9781557503213 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Naval Institute Press |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1998, Hardcover, 201p |
| Prijs: | € 20,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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Continuing the three-hundred-year quest to find a waterborne passage through Canada's frozen upper reaches, the renowned British explorer Sir John Franklin led a Royal Navy expedition to the Arctic in 1845 -- and vanished. Finding Franklin became an international cause celebre, and in 1850 the U.S. Navy sent out a two-ship rescue party with Robert Randolph Carter, scion of one of Virginia's first families, as one of the crew. Carter's day-by-day journal of that rescue attempt has only now been transcribed, edited, and annotated for publication. Exquisitely detailed, it gives historians and general readers a rare inside account of this extraordinary odyssey, early polar exploration, and life in the antebellum U.S. Navy.
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