Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Maps""; ""Preface""; ""The Search for Franklin""; ""1 Schwatka's Franklin Search Party, 1878,1879, and 1880""; ""2 Sojourn in Hudson Bay from August 1878 until 1 April 1879 as an Acclimatization Period""; ""3 The Trek to the Arctic Ocean Watershed, 1 April�4 May 1879""; ""4 From the Area of the Back River to King William's Land, 5 May�12 June 1879""; ""5 From Cape Herschel to Cape Felix, 12 June�3 July 1879""; ""6 The Main Search and Its Results, 6 July�6 August 1879"" |
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""7 The Divided Search, 6 August to the End of September 1879""""8 In Permanent Camp, October 1879""; ""9 From King William's Land to the Dangerous Rapids on the Great Fish River, 1 November�12 December 1879""; ""10 On the Back River, 12�31 December 1879""; ""11 The Overland March from 31 December 1879 until 27 February 1880""; ""12 The Final Stretch to Marble Island, 28 February�23 March 1880""; ""13 The Last Months in Hudson Bay, April�August 1880""; ""14 The Inuit of the American North""; ""Postscript""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C"" |
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Summary |
In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure |
Analysis |
Northern Canada Description & travel, 1869-1945 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892.
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Franklin, John, 1786-1847
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SUBJECT |
Franklin, John, 1786-1847 fast |
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Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 fast |
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Schwatka, Frederik, (1849-1892) ram |
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Franklin, John, (1786-1847) ram |
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Schwatka, Frederick. swd |
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Inuit -- Canada.
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TRAVEL -- Canada -- General.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Discoveries in geography -- American
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Inuit
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Expedition
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Inuits -- Canada.
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SUBJECT |
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006959
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United States -- Discovery and exploration
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Arctic Regions
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Canada
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Arctique -- Découverte et exploration américaines.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Barr, William, 1940-
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ISBN |
9781442678187 |
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1442678186 |
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1282045490 |
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9781282045491 |
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