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The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska Aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin (2 volumes)

Door John Bockstoce

Categorie	Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer	#239394
Titel	The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska Aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin (2 volumes)
Auteur	Bockstoce, John (edited by)
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London, The Hakluyt Society
Jaar van uitgave	1988
ISBN10	0904180247
ISBN13	9780904180244
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Hakluyt Society, Second Series No. 169 &170. Cloths with dust jackets.
Samenvatting	In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused on the large expeditions in the eastern Arctic, the smaller western expeditions also produced significant geographical and ethnographical information. The Plover's voyage of 1848 to 1854 was the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic, and Rochfort Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska. Maguire's journal is far more than an important historical document; it is a fascinating account of Europeans and Eskimos learn... (Lees verder)ing to cope with one another. Maguire's narrative is introduced by a detailed discussion of the history, strategy and logistics of the Franklin Search in the western Arctic. Appendices include accounts of the Search's five boat expeditions near Point Barrow as well as Dr John Simpson's seminal essay on the Eskimos of northern Alaska.
Pagina's	584
Conditie	Goed — Bottom corner vol. II bumped.
Prijs	€ 40,00