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JOURNAL OF H.M.S. ENTERPRISE, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. With a Memoir of his other Services Edited by his Brother, Major-General T.B. Collinson by Collinson, Sir Richard - 1889

by Collinson, Sir Richard

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JOURNAL OF H.M.S. ENTERPRISE, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. With a Memoir of his other Services Edited by his Brother, Major-General T.B. Collinson

by Collinson, Sir Richard

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. Pp. xi, [i], 531, colour lithography frontispiece, photogravure portrait plate, 6 colour folding maps, navy-blue pebbled cloth, gilt vignette to front cover (a lookout in the crowsnest with a telescope), gilt spine lettering. Preliminary page gathering professionally and unobtrusively reinserted with Japanese paper, darkening to endpapers, outer edges of maps browned, else interior clean, crisp and tight. Covers moderately soiled and scuffed, minute bubbling to rear cover, else very nice, scarce copy. "The 'Enterprise' and 'Investigator', under command of Collinson, sailed Jan. 1850, via Magellan Strait, to pursue the Franklin search from Bering Strait eastward through the Canadian arctic waters. The 'Enterprise', delayed, finally reached and explored the waters around Banks Island, and wintered in Prince of Wales Strait, 1851-52; sailed through Dolphin and Union and Dease Straits to winter in Cambridge Bay and explore by sledge around the east of Victoria Island, 1852-53; returned westward to winter in Camden Bay, Alaska, 1853-54, and thence home by the same route. In a prologue Collinson gives an abstract of the Franklin search to 1850, the state of arctic knowledge in the region of search, the books consulted, Admiralty orders, and list of officers and crew; a chapter on the visit to Port Clarence including the death of Lt. J.J. Bernard, killed by Indians during a visit to Nulato, on the Yukon River. Journal entries throughout record the course of the expedition, give information on currents, ice, dust and stone on ice, coasts, equipment for sledge parties, distances traversed, meteorology, animals encountered and appearance and customs of the Eskimos; include descriptions of Walker Bay in Prince of Wales Strait, and Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island; a brief list of Eskimo names for places from Pt. Barrow to the Mackenzie River; and notes on signal balloons, carrier pigeons, and effects of cold on sound, light, scent, and freezing of liquids; and summaries of the Franklin search as a whole. Appendix consists of notes to the journal, drawn from many sources, including effect of Mackenzie River on Beaufort Sea, and its driftwood; auroras; details of sledges and sledge traveling; arctic winter aboard ship; health (scurvy); polar ice, breaking up and resetting; Eskimos; and use of gunpowder for blasting ice. Concludes with a biographical memoir of Sir R. Collinson." AB 3351. Scarce.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.
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  • Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1889
  • Keywords Arctic; Sir John Franklin; Polar Exploration; Arctic Expedition; Travel & Exploration; Eskimos; Esquimaux; Bering Strait; Natural History; Meteorology;
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Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55

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Paperback / softback. New. Published in 1889, this journal recounts the voyage made by Richard Collinson (1811-83) in 1850-5 to discover the fate of Franklin's 1845 expedition and to locate the North-West Passage from the 'other side', via Bering Strait. Collinson made a significant contribution to the geographical knowledge of the region.
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