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  • Chapter 3 - ‘These Dread Shores’

  • Eavan O'Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Book:
    Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
    Published online:
    03 March 2022
    Print publication:
    10 March 2022, pp 81-113
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    This chapter is the first of three that shifts the focus of the book from the Arctic ship to the public metropolitan sphere. Between 1850 and 1853, an astonishing twelve travel narratives of exploration were published by members of expeditions involved in the search for Franklin. By 1860, twenty-four narratives had been published from the search, representing a sudden increase in books about the Arctic. Many of the publications were illustrated and ran to several editions, testifying to the popularity of texts about Arctic exploration. The chapter explores the text–picture interplay in narratives of travel and exploration that were published by members of search expeditions from 1850 to 1860. It explains how the representation of the Arctic was heavily dependent on factors such as the success and duration of the voyage, the way in which an author wished to portray himself, and the vibrant visual culture of the nineteenth century.