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Franklin, John, --- Erebus (Ship) --- Terror (Ship) --- Northwest Passage --- Arctic regions --- Nord-Ouest, Passage du --- Arctique

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Having served on expeditions under John Franklin, the British naval officer Sir George Back (1796-1878) had already gained first-hand experience of Arctic peril and survival by the time he was appointed in 1836 to command HMS Terror. His mission was to survey uncharted coastline in the Canadian Arctic, yet Back's ship became trapped in ice near Frozen Strait and was unable to escape for ten months. In this account, first published in 1838, Back lucidly documents the developing crisis, noting the numerous preparations to abandon ship, the deaths of three of his men from scurvy, and the further damage caused by an iceberg after the Terror was freed. Against the odds, the ship managed to reach Ireland in 1837. Naturally, Back gives much credit to the durability of the Terror - originally a bomb vessel from the War of 1812, it had been further strengthened for Arctic service.

Natural history --- Science --- Terror (Ship) --- Northwest, Canadian --- Arctic regions --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- HMS Terror --- H.M.S. Terror --- Description and travel

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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