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In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Search and rescue operations --- History --- Franklin, John, --- Travel --- Terror (Ship) --- Erebus (Ship) --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Arctic regions --- Northwest Passage --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Rescue work --- Unified operations (Military science) --- Search dogs --- Air rescue service --- Air-sea rescue --- Franklin, Dzhon, --- H.M.S. Erebus --- HMS Erebus --- HMS Terror --- H.M.S. Terror --- Franklin Expedition --- nineteenth-century literature and cultural history --- history of exploration and the polar regions --- naval history --- visual culture --- ephemera

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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic expedition, providing new insights into the personalities of those on board, the voyage's significance, and the dawning realization that they might never return.

Discoveries in geography. --- Explorers --- Sailors --- 19th Century. --- Anglo-Irish explorers. --- Archipelago. --- Arctic sovereignty. --- Canadian. --- Daguerreotype. --- Exploration. --- Inuit. --- Orkney. --- Royal Navy. --- Tasmanian. --- West Greenland. --- Whaling. --- correspondence. --- cultural contact. --- engineering. --- global warming. --- history. --- ice conditions. --- icebergs. --- literacy. --- material culture. --- natural. --- naturalists. --- naval ships. --- nineteenth. --- photography. --- shipboard life. --- signals. --- social class. --- steam-powered. --- terminology. --- writing. --- Great Britain. --- Grande-Bretagne. --- John Franklin Arctic Expedition --- Officers --- Officiers --- Northwest Passage --- Arctique --- Nord-Ouest, Passage du --- Arctic Ocean --- Arctic Regions. --- Discovery and exploration --- British --- Découverte et exploration britanniques