Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) established his reputation as an Arctic explorer on voyages with Ross and Belcher, undertaking long and dangerous sledge journeys charting the territory. McClintock's account of his 1857-9 expedition on the yacht Fox through the North-West Passage to discover the fate of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, the Erebus and Terror, was first published in 1859. The journey was commissioned by Franklin's widow who commissioned McClintock to seek corroborating evidence. After a punishing voyage, including 250 days beset by ice in Baffin Bay drifting some 1,400 miles, the search continued by sledge. It was William Hobson, McClintock's second-in-command who found the written evidence documenting Franklin's death in 1847. The grim remains of others who had perished were also discovered.

Franklin, John, --- Fox (Steam yacht) --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Franklin, Dzhon, --- Fox (Ship : 1855-1912)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration. Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of articles relating to the endeavours and findings of this intrepid undertaking. The demand for information did not abate and, in 1899, this two-volume account by Frederick G. Jackson (1860-1938) of his travels in Franz Josef Land was published to wide acclaim. Hailed by The Morning Post as 'a record of solid achievement accomplished by dint of steady perseverance in the face of hardship and difficulty', Jackson's journal describes a forbidding terrain of ice and snow. Richly illustrated, Volume 2 includes accounts of new lands, dark winters, and a famous encounter with Nansen. It is supplemented by a substantial appendix containing geographical and scientific observations.

Natural history --- Franz Josef Land (Russia) --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Franz Josef Land (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Fridtjof Nansen Land (Russia) --- Zemli︠a︡ Frant︠s︡a-Iosifa (Russia) --- Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa (Russia)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Franklin --- John --- 1786-1847 --- M'Clintock --- Francis Leopold --- Sir --- 1819-1907 --- Travel --- Arctic regions --- Diaries