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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... Title Page 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 Foreword 6 Illustrations 8 Introduction 21 1 Anticipation 42 2 Preparation 86 3 Sailing 130 4 London to Stromness 150 5 Stromness to Greenland 187 6 Last Partings 216 7 Letters to the Lost 322
- Author
- Russell A. Potter
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language
- EN