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The gates of hell Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage
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Title
The gates of hell [electronic resource] : Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage / Andrew Lambert.
ISBN
0300154860
0300167881
128235289X
6612352892
9780300154863
9780300167887
9781282352896
9786612352898
0300154852
9780300154856
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Lambert, Andrew D., 1956- Gates of hell. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-405) and index.
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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Genre/Form
Biography.
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