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Arctic artist : the journal and paintings of George Back, midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 /
George Back accompanied Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition and kept a lively record in prose and watercolor sketches. This is a reprint of the 1994 work which completed the editor's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers. Houston provides an introduction a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1994.
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| Colección: | Rupert's Land Record Society series ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- George Back's journal: Stromness to York factory
- York factory to Cumberland House
- Cumberland House to Fort Carlton
- Fort Carlton to Fort Chipewyan
- Fort Chipewyan to Fort Enterprise
- To Point Lake and return
- Fort Enterprise to Fort Chipewyan
- Fort Chipewyan to Fort Enterprise
- Preparations to leave Fort Enterprise
- Descent of the Coppermine River
- Exploring the Arctic Coastline
- Point Turnagain to Obstruction Rapids
- Obstruction Rapids to Moose Deer island
- Great Slave Lake to York Factory
- Postscript
- Figures.