Back, George Sir 1796-1878

Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 by George Back ( Book )
68 editions published between 1836 and 1999 in English and held by 436 libraries worldwide
Reprint of book first published by John Murray in 1836, with new introduction by William C. Wonders.

Arctic artist : the journal and paintings of George Back, midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 by George Back ( Book )
6 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 230 libraries worldwide
George Back accompanied Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition and kept a lively record in prose and watercolor sketches. This is a reprint of the 1994 work which completed the editor's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers. Houston provides an introduction and extensive annotations. Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back's prose captures the drama of this journey, and his superb water colour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Back's journal completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers, and is particularly valuable because it is the only journal that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Houston provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the expedition recorded in the various journals of the Hudson's Bay fur trade posts. I.S. MacLaren's commentary on Back's paintings reveals a naval officer of exceptional talent. Conversant with the artistic conventions and aesthetic temper of his age, Back used his sketchbooks not only to depict the expedition's progress but also to capture his imaginative response to the northern wilderness. MacLaren also edits and comments on two other documents written by Back during the expedition: a candid letter to his brother and a poem dramatizing the disaster that claimed the lives of eleven of the twenty explorers in Franklin's party.

Narrative of an expedition in H.M.S. Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-7 by George Back ( Book )
15 editions published between 1838 and 1977 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide

Voyage dans les régions arctiques à la recherche du capitaine Ross en 1834 et 1835, et reconnaissance du Thlew-ee-choh, maintenant Grande Rivière Back by George Back ( Book )
18 editions published between 1836 and 1982 in French and held by 69 libraries worldwide

Narrative of an expedition in H.M.S. Terror undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-37 by George Back ( Book )
7 editions published between 1838 and 1985 in English and held by 35 libraries worldwide

Landreise nach den Küsten des Nord-Polar-Meeres in den Jahren 1833-1835 by George Back ( Book )
6 editions published between 1845 and 1981 in German and held by 35 libraries worldwide

Arctic land expedition [extracts from despatches to the Royal Geographical Society from Captain Back, Fort Reliance, December 7th, 1833 by George Back ( Book )
6 editions published between 1834 and 1981 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide

Reise durch Nord-Amerika bis zur Mündung des grossen Fischflusses und an des Küsten des Polarmeeres in den Jahren 1833, 1834 und 1835 by George Back ( Book )
5 editions published between 1836 and 1981 in German and held by 28 libraries worldwide

Berufliches Schulzentrum in regionaler Planung Ermittlung eines Funktions- und Raumprogramms für das gewerbliche und hauswirtschaftliche Berufsschulzentrum Osnabrück auf der Grundlage sozialökonomischer, berufsschulpädagogischer und bautechnischer Daten und Methoden ( Book )
1 edition published in 1970 in German and held by 21 libraries worldwide

Reise durch Nord-Amerika bis zur Mündung des Grossen Fischflusses und an den Küsten des Polarmeeres in den Jahren 1833, 1834 und 1835 by George Back ( Book )
2 editions published between 1836 and 1981 in German and held by 17 libraries worldwide