Format:
Book
Author(s):
Cookman, Scott
Keyword(s):
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Noordwestpassage.
Arctique -- DÈcouverte et exploration.
Expedition.
Geschichte 1845.
Franklin, John, 1786-1847.
Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847.
Franklin, John (Forschungsreisender)
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Nord-Ouest, Passage du -- DÈcouverte et exploration.
Arctique -- DÈcouverte et exploration britanniques.
Passage du Nord-Ouest -- DÈcouverte et exploration.
Nordwestpassage.
Year:
2000
Publisher:
Wiley
Accession number:
42428762
Label:
Box 89
Notes:
ill., maps ; 24 cm.
The Epitaphs --; Messages from the Dead --; The Enigma: Sir John --; The Passage --; Two Ships --; Specters --; Ships' Commanders --; Ships' Companies --; Outward Bound --; Beechey Island --; The Last Summer --; Beset --; Imprisoned --; The Curse --; The Culprit --; Houndsditch --; Schedules --; The Dying Time --; Killer at Large --; The Death March --; Cannibalism --; The Culprit's Footprints --; The Empty Prize --; Afterword: Anatomy of a Disaster --; Provisions --; Northwest Passage Voyages: Mortality Rates --; Mid-Nineteenth-Century Naval Medicine --; Expedition Muster.
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Table of Contentshttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix01/99047620.html
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index.
National bibliography no: GBA0-Z8702 Other format available: Online version:; Cookman, Scott, 1952-; Ice blink.; New York : Wiley, c2000
Scott Cookman.
Internet resource (url)
Book; Internet Resource
URLS:
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Language:
English
ISBN:
ISBN: 0471377902 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780471377900 (cloth : alk. paper); 0471404209; 9780471404200; National Library: 000079367; LCCN: 99-47620
Research notes:
Insert at p. 34 Letter w/card attached from Lisa Whyatt to Mordechai Richler
Abstract:
Follows the trail of the expedition by Sir John Franklin, which sailed north from Greenland in 1845 with two iron-plated ships and 128 men, only to be swallowed up by the ice and snow.