Author Results for J. Cyriax
Adam Beck and the Franklin Search
This article recounts the interactions between Adam Beck (Kalersik), an ‘Eskimo’ interpreter, and members of the Arctic expeditions searching for Sir John Franklin in 1850. In August of that year Beck provided the searchers with a second-hand account of the 1846 break-up of two large ships in the winter ice off Cape Dudley Digges and […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Arctic
Subjects include: Science & Exploration