May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition / edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson ; with the assistance of Alison Alexander, William Battersby, Matthew Betts, Rick Burrows, A.J. Campbell, Jonathan Dore, Alison Freebairn, Andrew Hill, D.J. Holzhueter, Olga Kimmins, Jonathan Moore, Alexa Price, Frank Michael Schuster, Michael Smith, and Michael Tracy ; foreword by Sir Michael Palin.

May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition /

"May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into 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 expedition to the Arctic. The letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the...

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Other Authors: Potter, Russell A., 1960- (Editor), Koellner, Regina (Editor), Carney, Peter (Blogger) (Editor), Williamson, Mary (Descendent of Sir John Franklin) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > Officers > Correspondence.
John Franklin Arctic Expedition > (1845-1851) > Sources.
Sailors > Great Britain > Correspondence.
Explorers > Great Britain > Correspondence.
Northwest Passage > Discovery and exploration > British > Sources.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > British > Sources.
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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