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Author(s): Andrew Lambert
ISBN(s): 9780300154863, 0300154860
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.41 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0300154860 
ISBN 13: 9780300154863
Author: Andrew Lambert

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.

The Gates of Hell Sir John Franklin s Tragic Quest for the North West Passage 1st Table of contents:

Part I – The Age of Discovery and Obsession
Empire and Ice
The British Empire’s fascination with Arctic exploration and the myth of the Northwest Passage.

The Man Called Franklin
Sir John Franklin’s early life, naval career, and first Arctic journeys.

Into the White Abyss
Previous expeditions and the build-up to the fateful 1845 voyage.

Part II – The Final Expedition
Erebus and Terror
The outfitting of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their state-of-the-art preparations.

Departure into the Unknown
The ships set sail—letters, hopes, and the last sightings.

Encroaching Silence
The first winter on King William Island and dwindling supplies.

Signals from the Ice
Inuit testimony, clues left in cairns, and the first whispers of doom.

Part III – Descent into Darkness
The Ice Will Not Release Us
The ships trapped in ice; leadership falters, and Franklin dies.

Cannibalism and Collapse
The shocking forensic evidence; starvation, desperation, and death.

Bones on the Tundra
Modern archaeological discoveries and DNA revelations.

Part IV – The Legacy of Tragedy
Searchers and Mythmakers
The 30+ expeditions that tried to find answers—and the legends that grew.

The Discovery of the Wrecks
The 21st-century finds of HMS Erebus and Terror—what they revealed, and what they didn’t.

The Arctic’s Ghosts
Reflection on colonialism, Inuit oral history, and the cost of imperial ambition.

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