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The Gates of Hell : Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage by Andrew D. Lambert is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine.</p> <p>His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ic
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- Author
- Andrew D. Lambert
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300154856
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Adventure, Memoir, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (18 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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