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A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole Frederick William Beechey

A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole By Frederick William Beechey

A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole by Frederick William Beechey


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The naval officer Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) served under John Franklin during the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic. The two ships, Dorothea and Trent, were caught in ice and failed to find a route beyond Spitsbergen. This work, published in 1843, remains the principal account of the expedition.

A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole Summary

A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole: Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.N. 1818 by Frederick William Beechey

Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Trent, were sent to find a route via the seas around Spitsbergen. A little north of 80 Degrees their progress was halted by ice. Sailing west to Greenland, the Dorothea was seriously damaged and the expedition aborted. Beechey's account remains the principal source for this voyage as neither Franklin nor the overall commander David Buchan published their journals. Beechey's Arctic service equipped him to later command the Blossom in northern waters: his two-volume Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1831) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction; Instructions; 1. Expedition determined upon; 2. Quit Magdalena Bay; 3. Put to sea from Fair Haven; 4. Extent of damage ascertained; 5. Early attempts to settle at Spitzbergen; Part II: 1. Events which led to the prosecution of Arctic discovery; 2. The States General of Holland offer a reward; 3. Hudson's second voyage; 4. The British government equips an expedition; Part III: Appendices.

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NLS9781108074988
9781108074988
1108074987
A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole: Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.N. 1818 by Frederick William Beechey
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Cambridge University Press
2014-04-17
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