The gates of hell : Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage /
Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of Nort...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lambert, Andrew D., |d 1956- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The gates of hell : |b Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage / |c Andrew Lambert. |
| 260 | |a New Haven : |b Yale University Press, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 428 p., [8] p. de láms. : |b il., mapas ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 395-405) e índice. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : Erebus : the Gates of Hell -- The North West Passage : designs and delusions -- John Franklin : navigator -- Another career -- Scientific empires -- From Van Diemen's land to Tasmania, 1836-43 -- Science, culture and civilisation -- 'The nucleus of an iceberg' -- Magnetic empires -- 'Till our provisions get short' -- Defeated, deceived and defrauded -- Belcher -- Martyrs of science -- Arctic Fox -- Big art, brazen lies and the 'great explorer' -- Terror : what really happened? | |
| 520 | |a Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Franklin, John, |d 1786-1847. |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | |a Franklin, John, |d 1786-1847. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Explorers |z Great Britain |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Exploradores |z Gran Bretaña |v Biografía. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arctic regions |x Discovery and exploration |x British. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Northwest Passage |x Discovery and exploration |x British. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Canada, Northern |x Discovery and exploration |x British. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Regiones árticas |x Descubrimiento y exploraciones |x Ingleses. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Paso del Noroeste |x Descubrimiento y exploraciones |x Ingleses. |2 UDESA | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Canadá del Norte |x Descubrimiento y exploraciones |x Ingleses. |2 UDESA | |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Erebus (Ship) |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Terror (Ship) |
| 610 | 2 | 4 | |a Erebus (Barco) |
| 610 | 2 | 4 | |a Terror (Barco) |