Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane, and Others, Including t
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Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane, and Others, Including t

Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane, and Others, Including t


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Iu the early part of 1849, Sir E. Parry 6tated, thai in offering his opinions, he did so under a deep sense of the anxious and even painful responsibility, both at regarded the risk of life, as well as the inferior consid oration of expense involved in further attempts to res cue our gallant countrymen, or at least the surviving portion of them, from their perilous position. But it was his deliberate conviction, that the time had not yet arrived when the attempt ought to be given up as hopeless: the further efforts making might also be the means of determining their fate, and whether it pleased God to give success to those efforts or not, the Lords of the Admiralty, and the country at large, would hereafter be better satisfied to have followed up the noble attempts already made, so long as the most, distant hope remains of ultimate success. In the absence of authentic information of the fate of the gallant band of adventurers, it has been well observed, the terra incognita of the northern coast of Arctic America, will not only be traced, but minutely Biirveyed, and the solution of the problem of centuries will engage the marked attention of the House of Commons, and the legislative assemblies of other parts of the world. The problem is very safe in their hands, so safe indeed that two years will not elapse before it is solved. The intense anxiety and apprehension now so generally entertained for the safety of Sir John Franklin, and the crews of the Erebus and Terror, under his command, who, if still in existence, are now passing through the severe ordeal of a fifth winter, in those inclement regions, imperatively call for dvery available effort to be made for their rescue fron a position so perilous; and as long as one possible avenue to that position r...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150256905
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150256907
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr


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