Hms Resolute

Author : Elizabeth Matthews
Publisher : Elizabeth Matthews
ISBN 13 : 9780755203963
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hms Resolute written by Elizabeth Matthews and published by Elizabeth Matthews. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a ship involved in the failed searches for the lost explorer, Sir John Franklin, alter the course of history forever and become the lasting symbol of Anglo-American friendship? Sent into the Canadian Arctic in 1852 to find Franklin as part of the Belcher Expedition, the officers and men of HMS Resolute spent two years under their gallant and kind Captain Kellett unsuccessfully searching for the Franklin Expedition until they were forced by the expedition's commander, Edward Belcher, to abandon ship. Then an American whaler, James Munro Buddington, salvaged Resolute in Baffin Bay, and brought her into his New England homeport on Christmas Eve 1855. Meanwhile, Britain, seeking soldiers for her Crimean War, and against all international laws about the sovereignty of nations, recruited soldiers in five US cities despite America's declared neutrality. President Franklin Pierce, desperately seeking a way to unify his country riven by the issue of slavery, seized upon this affront. Prime Minister Palmerston, hoping to divert the attention of the British people from his extremely unpopular Crimean War, did not respond with an apology but rather tripled the number of Royal Navy ships just outside American waters. President Pierce appealed for Congressional approval to match that response. The jingoistic war of words was in danger of exploding into open hostilities as the opposing naval forces faced off: Britain and America were on the brink of their third war until Resolute became the focus of the rising tensions...and then she changed history forever In this work of maritime historical fiction follow our young American hero, Abraham Fairfax III, as he wrestles with his Quaker conscience over slavery and goes whaling in the Canadian Arctic. There he falls into the clutches of the sadistic British squadron leader, Edward Belcher, and is rescued by Resolute's intrepid captain, Henry Kellett. Arriving in Ireland Abraham falls in love with Kellett's beautiful but headstrong daughter. Read about their adventures as they are inextricably entwined with the divergent lives of Arctic explorers, salt-encrusted Yankee whalers, and cross-Atlantic warmongering politicians in the incredible story of Her Majesty's Ship Resolute "Elizabeth Matthews, an American writer, knows more about the history of HMS Resolute, and the complicated political background which threatened war between Great Britain and the US, than anyone else." --the late Michael Phillips-- leading British naval historian

Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402758614
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resolute written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr. as a young boy, peering out from under his father's desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that the desk itself plays a part in one of the world's most extraordinary mysteries--a dramatic tale that has never before been told in its full scope.

Author : Andrew Cohen
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459719514
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Beneath the Ice written by Andrew Cohen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the bold voyage of HMS Investigator and the modern-day discovery of its wreck by Parks Canada’s underwater archaeologists. When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Like Franklin’s ships, though, Investigator disappeared in the most remote, bleak and unknown place on Earth. For three winters, its 66 souls were trapped in the unforgiving ice of Mercy Bay. They suffered cold, darkness, starvation, scurvy, boredom, depression and madness. When they were rescued in 1853, Investigator was abandoned. For more than a century and a half, the ship’s fate remained a mystery. Had it been crushed by the ice or swept out to sea? In 2010, Parks Canada sent a team of archaeologists to Mercy Bay to find out. It was a formidable challenge, demanding expertise and patience. There, off the shores of Aulavik National Park, they found Investigator. Lost Beneath the Ice is a tale of endurance, daring, deceit, courage, and irony. It is a story about a tempestuous crew, their mercurial captain, cynical surgeon and kind-hearted missionary. In the end, McClure found fame but lost his ship, some of his crew and much of his honour. Written with elegance and authority, illustrated with archival imagery and startling underwater photographs of Investigator and its artifacts, this is a sensational story of discovery and intrigue in Canada’s Arctic. Andrew Cohen is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist. Among his books are While Canada Slept, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Unfinished Canadian, and Extraordinary Canadians: Lester B. Pearson. He writes a nationally syndicated column for The Ottawa Citizen and comments regularly on CTV. A professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University, he is founding president of the Historica-Dominion Institute. He has twice received Queen’s Jubilee Medals.

Author : Horatio Thomas Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horatio Thomas Austin Log of the H.M.S Resolute from 28 February to 28 October, 1850 written by Horatio Thomas Austin and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains detailed ship's log for H.M.S Resolute (Thursday, February 28, 1850 - Monday, October 28, 1850). H.M.S. Resolute sailed under Captain H.T. Austin in search of Sir John Franklin (ex Governor of Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania 1836-1843)) in May 1850. Returned in 1851.

Author : Shaun Micallef
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743583710
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The President's Desk written by Shaun Micallef and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The President’s Desk is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I’m leaving out Nixon, obviously). This epic retelling of the history of the United States takes us from the desk’s early life as the humble timbers of a barquentine frozen in the waters of the Arctic, through its transformation by decree of Queen Victoria, to over a century in the Oval Office as an eventual antique.

Contains 1000 UNTOLD SECRETS of the American presidency, including:

• Why Jimmy Carter destroyed Washington
• How George W. Bush killed John Howard
• When Calvin Coolidge appeared nude on his own coin
• Who drowned Warren Harding in his own hotel room
What Herbert Hoover really thought when he was attacked by Rin-Tin-Tin

Written by Shaun Micallef, star of Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation and, to a lesser extent, Mr and Mrs Murder.

'One of the greatest comic voices of our time' Matt Lucas, Little Britain

'Australia's finest satirist and comic surrealist.', Ben Elton

'Read it for too long and you get grin aches in your jawbones.' The Herald Sun

‘Shaun Micallef has a gift for the surreal. The English language is a sunlit garden. Shaun has a Harley-Davidson and a cast-iron alibi. He will be home by nightfall. You may hear some noise. It will be made by you. You will feel much better afterwards.’ John Clarke

Author : George Frederick M'Dougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eventful Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ship "Resolute" to the Arctic Regions written by George Frederick M'Dougall and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expedition of Henry Kellet.

Author : Glenn M. Stein
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622035
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the North-West Passage written by Glenn M. Stein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot. This book chronicles the voyage in detail. McClure and his relationships with his officers are at the heart of the story of the arduous journey, vividly illustrated by the paintings of Lt. Samuel Cresswell.

Author : Dan Ryan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449070973
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Admirals and Generals written by Dan Ryan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admirals and Generals: describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United States military from 1833 to 1877. It is the continuation of The Caldwell Series. The narration is by a retired career naval officer, born in Beaufort, South Carolina. The historical events of 1833 through 1877 are carefully followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in powerful settings from the playing fields of West Point to the summer cruises from Annapolis, Maryland. The time old love story between a man and a woman continues throughout this book when the naval officer proposes to a fellow student at Georgetown Graduate School.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Expedition. Case of HMS Resolute written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Includes original manuscript documents accompanied by (at the front of vol.) printed copies of communications between British and United States of America Governments regarding the recovery of HMS Resolute; copies of letters to the Admiralty Board from Lady Franklin. Lists of English and US vessels whose crew have received the Medal for Arctic Service and newspaper articles about the Resolute.

Author : Sherard Osborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal, Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions written by Sherard Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: