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Overland to Starvation Cove : With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 by Heinrich Klutschak (editor); William Barr (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<P>In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.</P> <P><EM>Overland to Starvation Cove</EM> is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure.</P>

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Author

Heinrich Klutschak (editor); William Barr (editor)

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442678187

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Adventure