Heavy Sledding
Chauncey Loomis, 21 December 1989
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
by Pierre Berton.
Viking, 672 pp., £16.95, May 1989,0 670 82491 7 Show More
by Pierre Berton.
Viking, 672 pp., £16.95, May 1989,
Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin 1878-1880
by Heinrich Klutschak and William Barr.
Toronto, 261 pp., £17.50, February 1988,0 8020 5762 4 Show More
by Heinrich Klutschak and William Barr.
Toronto, 261 pp., £17.50, February 1988,
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
by Owen Beattie and John Geiger.
Bloomsbury, 180 pp., £12.95, November 1987,0 7475 0101 7 Show More
by Owen Beattie and John Geiger.
Bloomsbury, 180 pp., £12.95, November 1987,
“... best survey of 19th-century Arctic exploration yet written. William Barr has translated and edited Heinrich Klutschak’s Als Eskimo unter den Eskimos as Overland to Starvation Cove. Klutschak was a member of the Schwatka Expedition in 1878-80, and during part of the expedition travelled by himself with Inuit. His ... ”
