SEARCHING FOR FRANKLIN: THE LAND ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.
James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Back River 1855. Pp. xvi+292, frontispiece, plus 12 full page illustrations (mostly maps), bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; navy cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt, spine ruled in blind; dust wrapper The Hakluyt Society, London, 1999. Hakluyt Third Series, No. 1. *With the publisher's printed sheet about the Third Series loosely inserted. '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.... The response of the Admiralty was to ask the Hudson's Bay Company to mount an overland expedition to attempt to confirm the Inuit reports. For this task Sir George Simpson, the Company's Governor in North America, selected James Anderson and James Stewart, veteran employees of the Company and directed them to descend the Back River by canoe to the area which the Inuit reports seemed to identify as the site of the demise of the Franklin expedition' [wrapper blurb]. Item #156542
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