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The Journey to the Polar Sea

Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION BY CAPTAIN R.F. SCOTT
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The narrative recounts an overland and riverine expedition from Hudson Bay to the Arctic coast, tracing arduous travel across lakes, rivers, portages, and barren tundra. It combines detailed route descriptions, natural observations, and encounters with Indigenous communities while describing methods of winter travel and survival. The party makes extended canoe navigation along the polar sea, assesses possibilities for a northwest maritime route, and documents scientific measurements and material culture. The journey is marked by extreme hardship: scarcity of provisions, sickness, fatalities, conflict within the group, and the desolation of remote posts. Interleaved personal reports and companion accounts conclude with reflections on the expedition's outcomes and losses.

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Title: The Journey to the Polar Sea

Author: John Franklin

Author of introduction, etc.: Robert Falcon Scott

Release date: September 24, 2004 [eBook #13518]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Sue Asscher

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JOURNEY TO THE POLAR SEA ***

The Journey to the Polar Sea

by SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

INTRODUCTION BY CAPTAIN R.F. SCOTT