04251nam 2201045 450 991079574550332120230527060111.00-2280-1336-40-2280-1337-210.1515/9780228013365(MiAaPQ)EBC29342606(Au-PeEL)EBL29342606(CKB)24106352000041(DE-B1597)657750(DE-B1597)9780228013365(EXLCZ)992410635200004120230527d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMay we be spared to meet on earth letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition /edited by Russell A. Potter [and four others]1st ed.Montreal, Quebec :McGill-Queen's University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (505 pages)Includes index.Print version: Potter, Russell A. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2022 9780228011392 Cover -- MAY WE BE SPARED TO MEET ON EARTH -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Anticipation -- 2 Preparation -- 3 Sailing -- 4 London to Stromness -- 5 Stromness to Greenland -- 6 Last Partings -- 7 Letters to the Lost -- Appendices -- A Harry Goodsir's "Zoology from the Arctic Expedition," with a fragment of a letter to Edward Forbes -- B Unattributed Letters in the Press -- C Franklin's Two Official Despatches to the Admiralty -- D A Brief Account of the Role of Steam Power in the Launch of the Expedition -- E A Note on the Proposed Route of the Expedition -- F Capsule Biographies of the Writers of These Letters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and Sources -- Index.May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage's significance, and the dawning realization that they might never return.Discoveries in geographyExplorersGreat BritainCorrespondenceSailorsGreat BritainCorrespondenceNorthwest PassageDiscovery and explorationBritishSourcesArctiqueDécouverte et exploration britanniquesSourcesNord-Ouest, Passage duDécouverte et exploration britanniquesSourcesArctic OceanNorthwest PassagefastArctic RegionsfastGreat BritainfastPersonal correspondence.fastSources.fastPersonal correspondence.lcgftCorrespondance privée.rvmgf19th Century.Anglo-Irish explorers.Archipelago.Arctic sovereignty.Canadian.Daguerreotype.Exploration.Inuit.Orkney.Royal Navy.Tasmanian.West Greenland.Whaling.correspondence.cultural contact.engineering.global warming.history.ice conditions.icebergs.literacy.material culture.natural.naturalists.naval ships.nineteenth.photography.shipboard life.signals.social class.steam-powered.terminology.writing.Discoveries in geography.ExplorersSailors910.916327cci1icclaccPotter Russell A.1960-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795745503321May we be spared to meet on earth3807286UNINA