Overland to Starvation Cove : : With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 / / Heinrich Klutschak; ed. by William Barr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Klutschak, Heinrich,
• HerausgeberIn: Barr, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Maps
• Preface
• The Search for Franklin
• 1. Schwatka's Franklin Search Party, 1878,1879, and 1880
• 2. Sojourn in Hudson Bay from August 1878 to i April 1879 as an Acclimatization Period
• 3. The Trek to the Arctic Ocean Watershed, i April-4 May 1879
• 4. From the Area of the Back River to King William's Land, 5 May-i2 June 1879
• 5. From Cape Herschel to Cape Felix, 12 }une~3 July 1879
• 6. The Main Search and Its Results 6 July-6 August 1879
• 7. The Divided Search, 6 August to the End of September 1879
• 8. In Permanent Camp, October 1879
• 9. From King William's Land to the Dangerous Rapids on the Great Fish River, i November-i2 December 1879
• 10. On the Back River, 12-31 December 1879
• 11. The Overland March from 31 December 1879 until 27 February 1880
• 12. The Final Stretch to Marble Island, 28 February-23 March 1880
• 13. The Last Months in Hudson Bay, April-August 1880
• 14. The limit of the American North
• Postscript
• Afterword
• Notes
• References
• Index