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When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Robert Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal. A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. The journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects on Native peoples and their environment of the coming of the Europeans. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest.
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Amy Hawkes
reviewed To the Arctic by canoe, 1819-1821 on August 12, 2009
To the Arctic by canoe
This is the journal of Robert Hood, one of the midshipmen who participated in Sir John Franklin's 1819-1922 expedition to the Coppermine River in Arctic Canada, transcribed and annotated by C. Stuart Houston. Houston also edited the journals of Franklin's other two officers from that expedition, John Richardson and George Back. Unfortunately, Hood did not survive the expedition; he was murdered by another member of the party. Hood's journal covers only their first year, and was written during their second winter based on his notes and memories. It is told in narrative form, rather than a daily account of their travels like Back's journal. There are lengthy sections about wildlife, the Indian tribes they encountered, and their scientific observations. Also included are prints of Hood's paintings, most in color, and biographical information about the expedition's other officers and men.
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