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In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Search and rescue operations --- History --- Franklin, John, --- Travel --- Terror (Ship) --- Erebus (Ship) --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Arctic regions --- Northwest Passage --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Rescue work --- Unified operations (Military science) --- Search dogs --- Air rescue service --- Air-sea rescue --- Franklin, Dzhon, --- H.M.S. Erebus --- HMS Erebus --- HMS Terror --- H.M.S. Terror --- Franklin Expedition --- nineteenth-century literature and cultural history --- history of exploration and the polar regions --- naval history --- visual culture --- ephemera