May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition / / edited by Russell A. Potter [and four others]

• Pubblicazione: Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (505 pages)
• Disciplina: 910.916327
• Soggetto topico: Discoveries in geography; Explorers - Great Britain; Sailors - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British Sources; Arctique Découverte et exploration britanniques Sources; Nord-Ouest, Passage du Découverte et exploration britanniques Sources; Arctic Ocean Northwest Passage; Arctic Regions; Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Personal correspondence; Sources.; Correspondance privée
• Soggetto non controllato: 19th 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
• Classificazione: cci1icc
• Persona (resp. second.): PotterRussell A. <1960->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: May we be spared to meet on earth
• ISBN: 0-2280-1336-4; 0-2280-1337-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795745503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II