Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880

In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.

Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure.

Author: William Barr, Heinrich Klutschak
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 07/31/1993
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780802073976

About the Author
Klutschak, Heinrich: - Heinrich W. Klutschak (1848-1890) was an Austrian artist who accompanied the American sealing schooner Flying Fish to South Georgia in 1877-78 and published a narrative of his activities with a sketch map in 1881.

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