May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition / / edited by Russell A. Potter [and four others] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 pages) |
Disciplina | 910.916327 |
Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in geography
Explorers - Great Britain Sailors - 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 |
ISBN |
0-2280-1336-4
0-2280-1337-2 |
Classificazione | cci1icc |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795745503321 |
Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition / / edited by Russell A. Potter [and four others] |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 pages) |
Disciplina | 910.916327 |
Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in geography
Explorers - Great Britain Sailors - Great Britain |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Personal correspondence
Sources. |
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 |
ISBN |
0-2280-1336-4
0-2280-1337-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813629403321 |
Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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