Table of Contents

Introduction
1. “Endeared to Me By Affliction”: Love, Death and the First Land Arctic Expedition, 1819-1822
2. “He a Discoverer, Forsooth!”: Arctic Sociability from Pall Mall to Great Bear Lake in the 1820s
3. “All Things Are Queer and Opposite”: The Franklins in Van Diemen’s Land, 1837-1843
4. “Have You Seen the Esquimaux Sketch of the Ships?”: Disappearing Ships and Inuit Maps, 1845-1849
5. “The Argument from Negative Evidence”: Inuit Testimony, British Graves and the Myth of the Open Polar Sea, 1850-1852
6. “If You Can Command the Columns of the Times…” The Tasmanian Case for Franklin’s Rescue and the end of Penal Transportation, 1852-1854
7. “Melancholy Relics”: the Imperial Afterlives of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

Promotional Information

A study of the Franklin family and other Arctic explorers in the 19th century to examine how they engaged with science and exploration, circulated information and shaped imperial knowledge and truth.

About the Author

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon is an Archivist at the State Library and Archives of Tasmania, Australia. She received her PhD in British and Imperial History at the University of Illinois, USA, in 2015.