The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant by Peter Steele

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant

Peter Steele

360 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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In the mid-1800s, George Back went on three Arctic expeditions with Sir John Franklin across the barren lands of the Canadian north. But unlike Franklin, Back lived to tell his tales in journals, drawings, watercolors, and maps. Noted writer Peter...

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