Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 - Hardcover

Overland to Starvation Cove - With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First English Edition. "In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artiist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. The Schwatka expedition was prompted by rumours among the Inuit that Franklin had left a cache of documents in a cairn somewhere in the vicinity of King William Island. Klutschak's absorbing account of the journey overland through an unexplored part of the Keewatin district tells the story of the expedition and its findings, including large numbers of skeletal remains overlooked by the McClintock expedition and some first-hand accounts from the Inuit of the last days of the Franklin expedition. Includes some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the local native peoples." - dust jacket. First published in German in 1881. xxxi, [3], [5]-261 p. Index. Footnotes. References. Map. Black and white illustrations. Book clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example. ; 8vo. Artikel-Nr. 431j2589

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