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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780568003321

Autore

Klutschak Heinric

Titolo

Overland to Starvation Cove : with the Inuit in search of Franklin, 1878-1880 / / Heinrich Klutschak; translated and edited by William Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

1-4426-5583-6

1-282-04549-0

9786612045493

1-4426-7818-6

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed. 1993.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

910.91632

Soggetti

Inuit - Canada

Electronic books.

Arctic regions Discovery and exploration American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Als Eskimo unter den Eskimos.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

""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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Sommario/riassunto

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.