Название: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition
Автор: Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney
Издательство: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0228011396
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 504
Размер: 12,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 journey's inception and early planning, going on to recount the ships' departure from the river Thames, their progress up the eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the crew's exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western coast of Greenland, from where the ships forever departed the society that sent them forth.