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Relics of the Franklin Expedition
Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845
Langbeschreibung
Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own--photographed, analyzed, cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London.This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present, richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs, many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used viiiEditor's PrefaceOriginal Introduction1.¿The Material Biography of Relics: A Physical and Spiritual Relationship2.¿The Continued Search for Relics, 1851-18543.¿Examining the Relics4.¿The Material and Social Value of the Relics5.¿The Relics: Their Past, Present and FutureConclusionAppendices:deleteA: Locations of RelicsdeleteB: Relics at the National Maritime MuseumdeleteC: Relics with Ownership AscribeddeleteD: Relics Recorded and Left by McClintock, 1859Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex 227
Garth Walpole was born in 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania. He earned a degree in history and archaeology at the University of Bangor in Wales, where his fascination with the lost Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin began. He died April 7, 2015, not long after completing this book.
ISBN-13:
9781476667188
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.01.2017
Seiten:
238
Autor:
Garth Walpole
Gewicht:
456 g
Format:
254x178x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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