May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition /

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"May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic. The letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Potter, Russell A., 1960- (Editor ), Koellner, Regina (Editor ), Carney, Peter (Blogger) (Editor ), Williamson, Mary (Descendent of Sir John Franklin) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > Officers > Correspondence.
John Franklin Arctic Expedition > (1845-1851) > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne. > Royal Navy > Officiers > Correspondance.
Great Britain. > Royal Navy
Sailors > Great Britain > Correspondence.
Explorers > Great Britain > Correspondence.
Marins > Grande-Bretagne > Correspondance.
Explorateurs > Grande-Bretagne > Correspondance.
HISTORY / Polar Regions
Armed Forces > Officers
Discoveries in geography > British
Explorers
Sailors
Northwest Passage > Discovery and exploration > British > Sources.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > British > Sources.
Nord-Ouest, Passage du > Découverte et exploration britanniques > Sources.
Arctique > Découverte et exploration britanniques > Sources.
Arctic Ocean > Northwest Passage
Arctic Regions
Great Britain
19th Century.
Anglo-Irish explorers.
Archipelago.
Arctic sovereignty.
Canadian.
Daguerreotype.
Exploration.
Inuit.
Orkney.
Royal Navy.
Tasmanian.
West Greenland.
Whaling.
correspondence.
cultural contact.
engineering.
global warming.
history.
ice conditions.
icebergs.
literacy.
material culture.
natural.
naturalists.
naval ships.
nineteenth.
photography.
shipboard life.
signals.
social class.
steam-powered.
terminology.
writing.
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Sources
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • MAY WE BE SPARED TO MEET ON EARTH
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Anticipation
  • 2 Preparation
  • 3 Sailing
  • 4 London to Stromness
  • 5 Stromness to Greenland
  • 6 Last Partings
  • 7 Letters to the Lost
  • Appendices
  • A Harry Goodsir's "Zoology from the Arctic Expedition," with a fragment of a letter to Edward Forbes
  • B Unattributed Letters in the Press
  • C Franklin's Two Official Despatches to the Admiralty
  • D A Brief Account of the Role of Steam Power in the Launch of the Expedition
  • E A Note on the Proposed Route of the Expedition
  • F Capsule Biographies of the Writers of These Letters
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes and Sources
  • Index

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