A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions: The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108050036)

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) established his reputation as an Arctic explorer on voyages with Ross and Belcher, undertaking long and dangerous sledge journeys charting the territory. McClintock's account of his 1857-9 expedition on the yacht Fox through the North-West Passage to discover the fate of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, the Erebus and Terror, was first published in 1859. The journey was commissioned by Franklin's widow who, unhappy with the Admiralty's reluctance to seek confirmation of the account of her husband's expedition brought back in 1854 by explorer John Rae, commissioned McClintock to seek corroborating evidence. After a punishing voyage, including 250 days beset by ice in Baffin Bay drifting some 1,400 miles, the search continued by sledge. It was William Hobson, McClintock's second-in-command who found the written evidence documenting Franklin's death in 1847. The grim remains of others who had perished were also discovered.

Author: Francis Leopold McClintock
ISBN-10: 1108050034
ISBN-13: 9781108050036
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2012
Pages: 476
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d