SEARCHING FOR FRANKLIN, THE LAND ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION 1855

Edited by William Barr

In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, missing in the Arctic since 1845. In response the Admiralty asked the Hudson's Bay Company to mount an overland expedition to attempt to confirm Rae's reports.

Two experienced men, Anderson and Stewart, set out and recovered artefacts from the Innuit which could only have come from Franklin's missing vessels. Ice prevented them making further discoveries but their efforts allowed a later expedition under McClintock to proceed directly to the correct area in 1859 and solve most aspects of the puzzle about what befell the Franklin expedition.

This is the story of the Anderson/Stewart expedition.

NON FICTION

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ISBN
0 904180 61 1

Published by the Hakluyt Society 1999

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