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Schwatka's Search William Henry Gilder

Schwatka's Search By William Henry Gilder

Schwatka's Search by William Henry Gilder


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In 1878-80, Frederick Schwatka (1849-92) set out to find records from Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. William Henry Gilder (1838-1900) accompanied him to the Arctic and published this illustrated account in 1882. Using Inuit travelling techniques, they found artefacts and graves but no written records.

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Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William Henry Gilder

A cavalry officer in the US Army, with training in law and medicine, Frederick Schwatka (1849-92) became interested in the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin following the search attempts led by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Supported by the American Geographical Society, Schwatka sailed in 1878 with five others in search of written records, believed to be deposited in cairns. A soldier turned journalist, William Henry Gilder (1838-1900) accompanied Schwatka and published this illustrated account in 1882. Their sledge journey with a party of twelve Inuit was at that time the longest on record. No documents were found, but the expedition did discover artefacts and graves of Franklin's men. Schwatka concluded that no scientific results from Franklin existed. In his adoption of Inuit techniques for safe travel in the Arctic, he preceded Vilhjalmur Stefansson by many decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Northward; 2. The winter camp; 3. Our dogs; 4. In the sledges; 5. Native witnesses; 6. The midnight sun; 7. Relics; 8. Irving's grave; 9. Arctic costumes; 10. Over melting snows; 11. Amateur Esquimaux; 12. Walrus diet; 13. The return; 14. Famine; 15. Esquimau home-life; 16. Homeward; 17. The graves of the explorers; Index; Appendix.

Additional information

NLS9781108074902
9781108074902
1108074901
Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William Henry Gilder
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2014-04-17
342
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