A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin ... With short notices, by Professor Dickie, on the Botany, and by Dr. Sutherland, on the Meteorology and Geology; and a new chart of the Arctic Sea.
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Inglefield, Edward Augustus (1820-1894)
Date: 1853
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This work recounts an unsuccessful expedition by Edward Augustus Inglefield to find the missing Franklin expedition. Following the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew during a mission to find the North-West Passage, the Admiralty organized numerous searches for the missing men.
Edward Inglefield sailed to the Arctic in the summer of 1852 in command of the Isabel, a steamer donated by Lady Franklin on the condition that it was used to search for her husband. First published in 1853, Inglefield's account of the voyage is accompanied by a number of illustrations.
The work also includes appendices listing the flowering plants and algae of the Arctic region as noted by the botanist George Dickie (1812-82), geographical and meteorological information collected by expedition surgeon Peter Sutherland (1822-1900), and Inglefield's correspondence with the Admiralty.
Appendixes: Dickie, G. Notes on flowering plants and algae...--Sutherland, P. C. A few remarks on the physical geography, etc., of Davis straits and its east and west shores.--Sutherland, P. C. Meteorology. Abstracts of the three-hourly meteorological register kept...in the North Atlantic, Davis straits, & Baffin bay. July to November, 1852...--Proceedings of Commander E. A. Inglefield...on a voyage of Arctic discovery
Half title: A summer for Sir John Franklin with appendices
First edition published in 1853
Octavo (219 x 140mm). 4 lithographed plates, including color frontispiece, another color plate, and one folding plate; large folding lithographed map
xxi, 232 p. col. front., 3 col. pl. (1 fold.) fold. map. 22cm.
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Abbey Travel 642; Arctic Bib. 7716; NMM 920; Sabin 34758; TPL 3265.
Publisher: London : Thomas Harrison, 59, Pall Mall (Late John Oliver) 1853.
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Date Added: 2019-06-02
Inglefield, Edward Augustus. A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin. London : Thomas Harrison, 59, Pall Mall (Late John Oliver) 1853.. 1853.
Inglefield, Edward Augustus (1853) A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin. London : Thomas Harrison, 59, Pall Mall (Late John Oliver) 1853..
Inglefield, Edward Augustus, A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin. London : Thomas Harrison, 59, Pall Mall (Late John Oliver) 1853.. 1853.