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The gates of hell: Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage
2009, Yale University Press
in English
0300154852 9780300154856
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Table of Contents
Prologue : Erebus : the Gates of Hell
The North West Passage : designs and delusions
John Franklin : navigator
Another career
Scientific empires
From Van Diemen's land to Tasmania, 1836-43
Science, culture and civilisation
'The nucleus of an iceberg'
Magnetic empires
'Till our provisions get short'
Defeated, deceived and defrauded
Belcher
Martyrs of science
Arctic Fox
Big art, brazen lies and the 'great explorer'
Terror : what really happened?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-405) and index.
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