The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas
Subtitle: A Narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: August 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781402163791
Subjects: voyage,Fox,ship,Arctic seas,discovery,fate,John Franklin,Francis Leopold McClintock; Reference / Atlases; Science / Geography
First sentence: IT is now a matter of history how Government and private expeditions prosecuted with unprecedented zeal and perseverance the search for Sir John Franklin's ships, between the years 1847-55; and that the only ray of information gleaned was that afforded by the inscriptions upon three tombstones at Beechey Island, briefly recording the names and dates of the deaths of those individuals of the lost expedition, who thus early fell in the cause of science and of their country.