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The Journal of Rochfort Maguire Vol I 1852-1854 (by Edited by John Bockstoce)

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The Journal of Rochfort Maguire Vol I 1852-1854
 

The Journal of Rochfort Maguire Vol I 1852-1854
(by Edited by John Bockstoce)

$25.00

ISBN: 0904180255

  • 1988 edition.  318 pages
  • Published by The Hakluyt Society, London.
  • Hardcover with dust jacket.  Light blue boards.  Format C.
  • Very good condition.  Minor shelf wear to dust jacket.  Small owner stamp on free front end paper.

Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard H.M.S. Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin.

Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 169.   Two volume set, this is volume one.   Both volumes are listed on this website.    Illustrated.  Index is in Volume II.

In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever.  Three years later, H.M.S. Plover's was the frist departure of twenty-one expeditions searching for Franklin.

Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused on the large expeditions in the eastern Arctic, the smaller western expeditions also produced significant geographical and ethnographical information.

The Plover's voyage of 1848 to 1854 was the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic, and Rochfort Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska.   Maguire's journal is far more than an important historical document;  it is a fascinating account of Europeans and Eskimos learning to cope with one another.

Maguire's narrative is introduced by a detailed discussion of the history, strategy and logistics of the Franklin Serach in the western Arctic.  Appendices include accounts of the Search's five boat expeditions near Point Barrow as well as Dr John Simpson's seminal essay on the Eskimos of northern Alaska. 

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