An edition of Discovering the North-West Passage
(2015)
Discovering the North-West Passage
the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition
by Glenn M. Stein
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From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot.
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Discovering the North-West Passage: the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition
2015, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
in English
0786477083 9780786477081
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Table of Contents
The frozen grail, up to 1845
Into the fray, 1846/50
The Pacific, 1850
Western Arctic gateway, 1850
The wily Arctic, 1850
The coldest crucible, 1850
Decisions, 1850
Jack Frost, 1850/51
The grand sledding chorus, 1851
The trap is sprung! 1851
"The fatal error of our voyage," 1851/52
Starvation, madness; and mutiny, 1852
Infinity's brink, 1853/54
Scattered bones and frozen memories, 1853 onward
Epilogue: found beneath the ice, 2010/11.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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