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In the Arctic Seas

di Francis Leopold McClintock · 24 parti · about 7 hours 14 minutes di lettura

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Eccolo, spiegato come se avessi 10 anni:

Tutta la Gran Bretagna voleva sapere cosa fosse successo a Sir John Franklin, perduto nell'Artico con due navi e tutti i suoi uomini. Il capitano McClintock prese un piccolo yacht, il Fox, e si spinse tra i ghiacci per scoprirlo. Svernò nella banchisa, percorse centinaia di miglia in slitta e tornò a casa con l'unico documento scritto lasciato dalla spedizione perduta. È una vera avventura, raccontata con semplicità dall'uomo che la visse.

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Capitoli

Dedication1 min Official Acknowledgment of the Services of the Yacht 'Fox'1 min Preface by Roderick I. Murchison14 min Chapter 1: Cause of delay in equipment; Fittings of the 'Fox'; Volunteers for Arctic service; Assistance from public departments; Reflections upon the undertaking; Instructions and departure; Orkneys and Greenland; Fine Arctic scenery; Danish establishments in Greenland; Frederickshaab, in Davis' Straits21 min Chapter 2: Fiskernaes and Esquimaux; The 'Fox' reaches Disco; Disco Fiord; Summer scenery; Waigat Strait; Coaling from the mine; Purchasing Esquimaux dogs; Heavy gale off Upernivik; Melville Bay; The middle ice; The great glacier of Greenland; Reindeer cross the glacier17 min Chapter 3: Melville Bay; Beset in Melville Bay; Signs of Winter; The coming storm; Drifting in the pack; Canine appetite; Resigned to a winter in the pack; Dinner stolen by sharks; The Arctic shark; White Whales and Killers18 min Chapter 4: Snow crystals; Dog will not eat raven; An Arctic school; The dogs invade us; Bear-hunting by night; Ice-artillery; Arctic palates; Sudden rise of temperature; Harvey's idea of a sortie18 min Chapter 5: Burial in the pack; Musk oxen in lat. 80° north; Thrift of the Arctic fox; The aurora affects the electrometer; An Arctic Christmas; Sufferings of Dr. Kane's deserters; Ice acted on by wind only; How the sun ought to be welcomed; Constant action of the ice; Return of the seals; Revolving storm19 min Chapter 6: A bear-fight; An ice-nip; Strong gales, rapid drift; The 'Fox' breaks out of the pack; Hanging on to floe-edge; The Arctic bear; An ice tournament; The 'Fox' in peril; A storm in the pack; Escape from the pack18 min Chapter 7: A holiday in Greenland; A lady blue with cold; The loves of Greenlanders; Close shaving; Meet the whalers; Information of whalers; Disco; Danish hospitality; Sail from Disco; Kindness of the whalers; Danish establishments in Greenland18 min Chapter 8: 'Fox' nearly wrecked; Afloat, and push ahead; Arctic hairbreadth escapes; Nearly caught in the pack; Shooting little auks; The Arctic Highlanders; Cape York; Crimson snow; Struggling to the westward; Reach the West-land; Off the entrance of Lancaster Sound19 min Chapter 9: Off Cape Warrender; Sight the whalers again; Enter Pond's Bay; Communicate with Esquimaux; Ascend Pond's Inlet; Esquimaux information; Arctic summer abode; An Arctic village; No intelligence of Franklin's ships; Arctic trading; Geographical information of natives; Information of Rae's visit; Improvidence of Esquimaux; Travels of Esquimaux24 min Chapter 10: Leave Pond's Bay; A gale in Lancaster Sound; The Beechey Island Depôt; An Arctic monument; Reflections at Beechey Island; Proceed up Barrow's Strait; Peel Sound; Port Leopold; Prince Regent's Inlet; Bellot Strait; Flood-tide from the west; Unsuccessful efforts; Fox's Hole; No water to the west; Precautionary measures; Fourth attempt to pass through23 min Chapter 11: Proceed westward in a boat; Cheerless state of the western sea; Struggles in Bellot Strait; Falcons, good Arctic fare; The resources of Boothia Felix; Future sledge travelling; Heavy gales; Hobson's party start; Winter quarters; Bellot Strait; Advanced depôt established; Observatories; Intense cold; Autumn travellers; Narrow escape20 min Chapter 12: Death of our engineer; Scarcity of game; The cold unusually trying; Jolly, under adverse circumstances; Petersen's information; Return of the sun of 1859; Early spring sledge-parties; Unusual severity of the winter; Severe hardships of early sledging; The western shores of Boothia; Meet the Esquimaux; Intelligence of Franklin's ships; Return to the 'Fox'; Allen Young returns28 min Chapter 13: Dr. Walker's sledge journey; Snow-blindness attacks Young's party; Departure of all sledge-parties; Equipment of sledge-parties; Meet the same party of natives; Intelligence of the second ship; My depôt robbed; Part company from Hobson; Matty Island; Deserted snow-huts; Native sledges; Land on King William Land20 min Chapter 14: Meet Esquimaux; News of Franklin's people; Frighten a solitary party; Reach the Great Fish River; On Montreal Island; Total absence of all relics; Examine Ogle Peninsula; Discover a skeleton; Vagueness of Esquimaux information; Cape Herschel; Cairn20 min Chapter 15: The cairn found empty; Discover Hobson's letter; Discovery of Crozier's record; The deserted boat; Articles discovered about the boat; The skeletons and relics; The boat belonged to the 'Erebus'; Conjectures21 min Chapter 16: Errors in Franklin's records; Relics found at the cairn; Reflections on the retreat; Returning homeward; Geological remarks; Difficulties of summer sledging; Arrive on board the 'Fox'; Navigable N.W. passage; Death from scurvy; Anxiety for Captain Young; Young returns safely23 min Chapter 17: Signs of release; Dearth of animal life; Owl is good beef; Beat out of winter quarters; Our game-list; Reach Fury Beach; Escape from Regent's Inlet; In Baffin's Bay; Captain Allen Young's journey; Disco; sad disappointment; Part from our Esquimaux friends; Adieu to Greenland; Arrive home27 min Conclusion3 min Appendix I: Lady Franklin's Letter to Viscount Palmerston13 min Appendix II: Memorial to Viscount Palmerston6 min Appendix IV: Geological Account of the Arctic Archipelago by Samuel Haughton41 min