Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin\u2019s tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back\u2019s prose captures the drama of the journey, while his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Published for the first time, this is the complete text of Back\u2019s journal. Arctic Artist completes Stuart Houston\u2019s trilogy of the journals of Franklin\u2019s officers.<\/p>\n
Back\u2019s journal is particularly valuable because it is the only one that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Both the journal and Back\u2019s earlier notes have been edited by Houston, who 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\u2019s Bay fur trade posts.<\/p>\n
I.S. MacLaren\u2019s commentary on Back\u2019s paintings reveals a midshipman-artist of exceptional talent. Conversant with the artistic conventions and aesthetic temper of his age, Back used his sketch-books not only to depict the expedition\u2019s progress but also to capture his imaginative response to the northern wilderness. MacLaren 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\u2019s party.<\/p>\n
Arctic Artist will be of interest to Franklin and Arctic enthusiasts, and to Canadian studies, northern studies, art history, and anthropology specialists.<\/p>\n
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\nEdited by C. Stuart Houston, commentary by I.S. MacLaren<\/p>\n
\nEnglish<\/p>\n
\n432<\/p>\n
\n1994<\/p>\n
\nMcGill \u2013 Queen\u00b4s University Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"