Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827

by Franklin, John; Richardson, John

• ISBN13: 9781108041331
• ISBN10: 1108041337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) joined the Navy at the age of fourteen and saw action at Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Between those battles, he circumnavigated Australia with his uncle, Matthew Flinders; he became famous after his first major expedition to northern Canada in 1819-22, although it resulted in the deaths of over half of his men. Accounts of both of these voyages are also reissued in this series. Franklin returned to the Arctic in 1825, and this, his second book, describes that more successful endeavour. Published in 1828, it records the expedition's planning, route, scientific observations, and the mapping of over 1200 miles of Canada's northern coastline. The party included two artists, and their work is reproduced in over thirty engravings. Franklin was later posted to the Mediterranean and Tasmania, but in 1845 embarked on his disastrous third expedition to the North-West Passage, during which he and his entire crew were lost.

Table of Contents

Introductory chapter

Official instructions

Join the boats in the Methye River

Transactions at Fort Franklin, 1825âÇô6

Voyage to the sea

Babbage River

Commence return to the Mackenzie

Dr Richardson's Narrative of the Proceedings of the Eastern Detachment of the Expedition

Leave Point Separation, and descend the eastern channel of the Mackenzie

Detention by wind

Double Cape Bathurst

Ascend the Coppermine River

Captain Franklin's Narrative Resumed

Brief notices of the second winter at Bear Lake

Appendix

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