A Terrific New World: Polar Space in the Narrative, Journals and Letters of John Franklin’s First Arctic Expedition (1819-22)
Franklin’s first exploration of the Northern coast of Canada captured the public imagination thanks to his Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22, published in 1823, which conveys the drama of an expedition plagued by harsh weather, bad planning, starvation and ev...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-07-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3865 |