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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth
2022
Overview
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged
glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors
who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror
for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic. The
letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the
journey's inception and early planning, going on to recount the
ships' departure from the river Thames, their progress up the
eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the
crew's exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western
coast of Greenland, from where the ships forever departed the
society that sent them forth. As the realization dawned that
something was amiss, heartfelt letters to the missing were sent
with search expeditions; those letters, returned unread, tell
poignant stories of hope. Assembled completely and conclusively
from extensive archival research, including in far-flung family and
private collections, the correspondence allows the reader to peer
over the shoulders of these men, to experience their excitement and
anticipation, their foolhardiness, and their fears. The Franklin
expedition continues to excite enthusiasts and scholars worldwide.
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth provides new insights
into the personalities of those on board, the significance of the
voyage as they saw it, and the dawning awareness of the possibility
that they would never return to British shores or their
families.
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780228011392, 0228011396
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