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

By William Barr , Heinrich Klutschak

Book information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0802057624, 9780802057624
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18984390 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
301\296
Time added
2017-05-23 16:57:24
Ethnic & National;African-American & Black;Austral

Description

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, artist 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.Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure.

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