Resolute (43 page)

A
BOOK OF THIS MAGNITUDE
requires the help and support of many individuals and I have been blessed by being aided by the very best. It was my good fortune to have the gracious assistance of Russell Potter of Rhode Island College, whose guidance with the artwork proved invaluable. His marvelous foreword to this book proves once again that he is among the most perceptive and articulate of all Arctic experts.

I owe a special debt of gratitude to Sterling Publishing's Vice President and Editorial Director Michael Fragnito. Thanks, Michael, for recognizing the importance of adding a vital but hitherto neglected dimension to one of the world's most fascinating sagas. I am also indebted to a host of other accomplished professionals at Sterling, including: Charles Nurnberg, Publisher and CEO, Marcus Leaver, Jason Prince, Jeremy Nurnberg, Leigh Ann Ambrosi, Kate Rados, Karen Nelson, Elizabeth Mihaltse, Marilyn Kretzer, Rena Kornbluh, Rebecca Maines, Pip Tannenbaum, Shelley Giblin, Catherine Martin, Kristin McGrath, Chrissy Kwasnik, and Chantal Flavien. I have also benefitted from the contributions of the staff of Barnes & Noble, particularly Bob Wiertrak, Sallye Leventhal, David Achar, and Chuck Bloodgood.

I am most appreciative of what three highly talented individuals have brought to this book—Russell Hassell for his most appealing interior design; Amy King for her arresting jacket design; and Nick Springer for his beautiful maps. I also wish to thank Laura Case, Paula Schlosser, Adam Weiss, and Pam Anderson at Netpub for their help with the bound galley.

Very special thanks are due the following dedicated experts who provided assistance in the research and acquisition of illustrations: Sandy Johnson, Alaska State Library; Scott Currier; Paul Frecker; Kitty Kelley; Bill Peterson, Louisa Watrous, and Amy German at the Mystic Seaport Museum; Joanna Murray, National Library of Australia; Isabel Fernandez, National Library and Archives of Canada; Jeremy Mitchell, David Taylor, Doug McCarthy, and William Duguid at the National Maritime Museum; Matthew Bailey, National Portrait Gallery; Edward Baker, New London Historical Society; Sheila Carleton and Alan Walker at the Toronto Public Library; Gilbert Gonzalez, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Perry Willett, University of Michigan Library; and Harmony Haskins, White House Historical Society.

As always I am deeply indebted to my wife Carol Weiss Sandler who not only contributed her considerable research skills, but once again accommodated to the schedule of a workaholic husband.

Finally, this book could not have been written without the continual guidance and invaluable contributions of Barbara Berger. Barbara, all is forgiven for the outragous schedule, the weekend and late-evening emails and calls, and the Columbo-like “just one more things.” Your superlative editing, your skill and perserverence in picture selection, and, most important, your dedication and passion for excellence have been an inspiration.

JACKET, MAIN IMAGE:
Critical position of HMS
Investigator…
1851
, by Samuel Gurney Cresswell; Courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-016105. Source: National Archives of Canada
JACKET, BACKGROUND:
Victory Point record of Franklin expedition; courtesy of Russell A. Potter

NOTE:
Italic
numerals refer to images in book pages; color-plates are indicated by
“
P
L.”

Courtesy Alaska State Library:
203:
Schwatka, Frederick-1

Corbis:
194: ©
Corbis /
229: ©
Bettmann/Corbis

Courtesy the Currier & Ives Foundation: P
L.
27

Courtesy of Paul Frecker, London:
P
L.
12: Adm. Sir Edward Belcher, 1861, by Camille Silvy

Courtesy Library and Archives Canada

W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana:
P
L.
2:
Acc. No, 1970-188-1946 / P
L.
7: Acc. No. 1970-188-1946 / P
L.
10: Acc. No. 1970-188-1945
/ 39: Acc.
No. 1970-188-554; Purchased with the assistance of the Department of the Secretary of State
Library and Archives Canada:
P
L.
5: Acc. No. 1960-109-36 /
64:
ARCH Rare G650 1829 R8 fol. / P
L.
8,
80:
National Library of Canada
Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana:
P
L.
9:
Acc.
No. R9266-1032 / P
L.
22: Acc. No. R9266-2114 /
24: Acc.
No. R9266-3038 /
98: Acc.
No. R9266-1031

Courtesy of Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress:
P
L.
21: LC-USZC4-4671 / P
L.
24: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03348 / P
L.
25: LC-USZ6-422 /
217:
LC-USZ62-123892

Courtesy Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea:
P
L.
19:
Bark GEORGE HENEY of New London, Connecticut
, Engraving depicting the date: May 28, 1860; © Mystic Seaport Collection, Mystic, CT #1939-1244

Courtesy National Library of Australia:
P
L.
3: Cooke, Edward William, Erebus
and Terror, Sir John Franklin's Expedition
, ca. 1850, nla.pican2282969 / 7:
Portrait of Sir John Barrow
, painted by John Jackson; engraved by W. J. Edwards, London: Published by Henry Graves & Compy., 1853, Rex Nan Kivell collection, NK11150, nla.pic-an9288312

Courtesy National Maritime Museum:
33, 252, 253

Courtesy of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA):
P
L.
16: NOAA Central Library /
Frontispiece
, P
L.
17,
12, 115 & 129:
Treasures of the NOAA Library Collection

Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London: P
L.
6 & P
L.
11

Courtesy of the New London County Historical Society, New London, Connecticut:
P
L.
18: Captain Buddington (in sealskins), 1862, from Giles Bishop Collection, NLCHS 799, N461, photograph by G. C. Waldo

Courtesy of Russell A. Potter:

P
L.
4, P
L.
28, P
L.
9,
107
P
L.
20
& 159:
from
The Illustrated London News
, 1856 / 72: from
The Illustrated London News
, 1851 /
78:
from
Dollar Monthly Magazine
, 1863 /
167
&
220:
from
The Illustrated London News
, 1859 /
169:
from
Harper's Weekly
, 1859 /
208:
from
The Illustrated London News
, 1881

© SSPL/The Image Works:
P
L.
26

NOTE:
Image depicts Lieut. John Powles Cheyne's three-balloon North Pole scheme of the 1870s (Cheyne was an officer on two Franklin search expeditions in 1850s). These balloons are larger in scale than the search balloons used in Franklin search, although Cheyne was inspired by them.

Courtesy Toronto Public Library:
P
L. 1:
from
A Voyage of Discovery..
, John Ross, 1819
/
P
L.
13: from
The Eventful Voyage of H.M.S. Discovery Ship
Resolute …, George Frederick M'Dougall, 1857 / P
L.
14: from
Facsimile of the Arctic Illustrated News….
George F. M'Dougall, 1852 / P
L.
15 and details on
1, 17, 31, 45, 53, 65
, 75,
87, 97, 113, 135, 149, 161, 173, 191, 201, 215:
from
A Series of Fourteen Sketches…
, Walter William May, 1855 / P
L.
23: from
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions
, John Franklin, 1859 /
19:
from
An Account of the Arctic Regions …
, William Scoresby, 1820 /
24
(appendix)
& 62:
from
Narrative of a Second voyage in Search of a North-West Passage
…, John Ross, 1835 /
46:
from
Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage …
, W. E. Parry, 1821/5
9:
from
The Last Voyage of Capt. John Ross
…, Robert Huish, ed., 1835 /
92:
from
The Discovery of the North-West Passage…
, Robert McClure, 1856 /
125:
from
Notes from an Arctic Diary
, Johann Miertsching, 1861 /
136:
J. Ross Robertson Collection, T 14960 /
146:
from
Arctic Explorations, the Second Grinnell Expedition …
, Elisha Kent Kane /
166:
from
The Voyage of the Fox …
, Francis Leopold M'Clintock, 1860
/ 175 & 177:
from
Narrative of the Second Expedition made by Charles F. Hall
, Charles Francis Hall, 1879

Courtesy of the estate of Stanley Tretick; Courtesy © Bettmann; Stanley Tretick, 1
963/
CORBIS
:
P
L. 30

Courtesy University of Michigan Making of America:
183:
from
The Open Polar Sea …
, Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes, 1867

Courtesy White House Historical Association:
PL. 31

I
AM A
PASSIONATE TENNIS PLAYER
, an avid movie-goer, and a lifelong, dedicated follower of the Boston Red Sox, an avocation which, until the miracle of 2004, threatened both my health and my mental stability. More than anything else, however, I love to uncover important but neglected stories in the human experience, particularly if they involve unimaginable heroism and surprising resuts. That is why researching and writing the saga of the
Resolute
has been such a joy. I feel extremely privileged to have had the opportunity to tell it.