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Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River,. Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (in English)
William Hulme Hooper (Author)
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Cambridge University Press
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Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River,. Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (in English) - William Hulme Hooper
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Synopsis "Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River,. Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (in English)"
In the middle of the nineteenth century, British Arctic exploration became defined by the search for the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin, who had in fact perished in desperate circumstances in 1847. As a newly qualified naval officer, William Hulme Hooper (1827–54) took part in one of the many expeditions which sought to find Franklin. Embarking in 1848, the crew of HMS Plover spent three winters in the Arctic, with tragic consequences for Hooper's health. On his return, perhaps realising time was short, he wrote this illustrated account of his travels, and saw it published the year before he died at the age of only twenty-seven. The work is of particular interest because of its detailed descriptions of the Bering Sea region, Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. Especially noteworthy are the observations on the way of life of the indigenous Chukchi people, whom Hooper called 'Tuski'.
