Search for John Franklin's lost Arctic Expedition news reports—Nautical Mag 1852
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'Arctic Matters—The Search for Sir John Franklin—Arctic Expeditions'
A group of three contemporary articles relating to the search for the lost Northwest Passage expedition of Sir John Franklin, published in the October 1852 issue of The Nautical Magazine. The first prints a seven-page letter dated 8 June 1845 from an officer serving with Franklin during the early stages of the expedition. The second reproduces a letter from Edward Augustus Inglefield to The Times, announcing that Lady Franklin had provided a vessel “supplied… with provisions for five years” to search for her husband. A third nine-page article reviews the numerous expeditions already dispatched to the Arctic and considers whether Franklin’s crews might still survive, examining the possibility that their provisions could have sustained them for as long as seven years.
Size 13 x 21 cm | 5.0 x 8.5 inches
Date Published: 1852
Type: Antique engraved printed pages; an eight page article, printed on both sides of five sheets; a single part-page article, and a nine page article, printed on both sides of five sheets, plus the 1852 volume title page
Author: The Nautical Magazine
Publication: The Nautical Magazine
Condition: Good |
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