LEADER 03582nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910972117003321 005 20241107093534.0 010 $a1-282-35289-X 010 $a9786612352898 010 $a0-300-15486-0 035 $a(CKB)2430000000010789 035 $a(OCoLC)609890907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348476 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000347012 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11254297 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000347012 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10329102 035 $a(PQKB)11480172 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420579 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348476 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235289 035 $a(OCoLC)923594417 035 $a(ODN)ODN0000303200 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000010789 100 $a20090328d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe gates of hell $eSir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage /$fAndrew Lambert 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-300-15485-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-405) and index. 327 $aPrologue : Erebus : the Gates of Hell -- The North West Passage : designs and delusions -- John Franklin : navigator -- Another career -- Scientific empires -- From Van Diemen's land to Tasmania, 1836-43 -- Science, culture and civilisation -- 'The nucleus of an iceberg' -- Magnetic empires -- 'Till our provisions get short' -- Defeated, deceived and defrauded -- Belcher -- Martyrs of science -- Arctic Fox -- Big art, brazen lies and the 'great explorer' -- Terror : what really happened? 330 $aAndrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science. 606 $aExplorers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 607 $aArctic regions$xDiscovery and exploration$xBritish 607 $aNorthwest Passage$xDiscovery and exploration$xBritish 615 0$aExplorers 686 $aBIO000000$2bisacsh 700 $aLambert$b Andrew D.$f1956-$030009 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972117003321 996 $aThe gates of hell$94379345 997 $aUNINA