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Discovering the North-West Passage : the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition / Glenn M. Stein.
- Title
- Discovering the North-West Passage : the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition / Glenn M. Stein.
- Author
- Stein, Glenn M., 1962-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | G665 1850 .S74 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 376 pages; 26 cm
- Summary
- From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot.
- Subject
- McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir, 1807-1873 > Travel > Northwest Passage
- McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir, 1807-1873
- Investigator (Ship)
- 1800 - 1899
- Search and rescue operations > Arctic regions > History > 19th century
- Discoveries in geography > British
- Search and rescue operations
- Travel
- Northwest Passage > British
- Arctic regions > British
- Arctic Ocean > Northwest Passage
- Arctic Regions
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The frozen grail, up to 1845 -- Into the fray, 1846/50 -- The Pacific, 1850 -- Western Arctic gateway, 1850 -- The wily Arctic, 1850 -- The coldest crucible, 1850 -- Decisions, 1850 -- Jack Frost, 1850/51 -- The grand sledding chorus, 1851 -- The trap is sprung! 1851 -- "The fatal error of our voyage," 1851/52 -- Starvation, madness; and mutiny, 1852 -- Infinity's brink, 1853/54 -- Scattered bones and frozen memories, 1853 onward -- Epilogue: found beneath the ice, 2010/11.
- ISBN
- 9780786477081 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786477083 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476622033 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015031090
- OCLC
- 907094293
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library