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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Autor principal: Lambert, Andrew D., 1956-
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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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. 
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