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The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

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Book Title
The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North
Publication Date
2009-09-01
Pages
428
ISBN
9780300154856
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Gates of Hell : Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Andrew Lambert
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Yale University Press
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Number of Pages
456 Pages

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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. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300154852
ISBN-13
9780300154856
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72676533

Product Key Features

Author
Andrew Lambert
Publication Name
Gates of Hell : Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
456 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28 Oz

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Reviews
"The extensively researched Gates of Hell is nonetheless valuable for its many provocative connections between Franklin, his circle, the scientific quest for data on magnetism, British imperial aspirations, and Artic voyages. . . . [A] vivid picture of the intertwined personal, political, and scientific ambitions of the men involved."-Jen Hill, Victorian Studies, ". . .an insightful, provocative, and very stimulating work."-Gary Weir, Chief Historian, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, ". . .an insightful, provocative, and very stimulating work."�Gary Weir, Chief Historian, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, "Well-reasoned and amply documented...engagingly energetic...Lambert gives us a new way of looking at Franklin, his life, and his death."--Anne Morton, International Journal of Maritime History
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Adventurers & Explorers, Modern / 19th Century, North America, Expeditions & Discoveries
Dewey Decimal
910.916327
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History

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