Discovering the North-West Passage : the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition

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Discovering the North-West Passage : the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition

Title remainder

the four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition

Statement of responsibility

Glenn M. Stein

Creator

• Stein, Glenn M., 1962-

Author

• Stein, Glenn M., 1962-

Subject

• Arctic Regions
• Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | British
• Discovery and exploration, British
• Expedition
• History
• Investigator (Ship)
• Investigator (Ship)
• McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, 1807-1873
• 1800-1899
• McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir, 1807-1873 -- Travel -- Northwest Passage
• Nordwestpassage
• Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration | British
• Search and rescue operations
• Search and rescue operations -- Arctic regions -- History -- 19th century
• Travel
• McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir, 1807-1873
• Arctic Ocean -- Northwest Passage

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography