Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860.

Cavell, Janice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). Studies in Book and Print Culture.
  • Arctic Reading: General
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An important if a bit theoretical approach to telling the Arctic story in the earlier nineteenth century, and especially in their serial publication (as in Dickens e.g.). She compares Arctic exploration narratives, serially reported, with serialized fiction of the period. Main emphasis is on John Franklin, from his earlier land journeys to his disappearance in 1845, and the periodic discoveries of his fate.

Vihjalmur Stefansson, Robert Bartlett, and the Karluk Disaster: A Reassessment.

Cavell, Janice. Journal of the Hakluyt Society (January 2017). 22 p.
  • 1913-16 Canadian Arctic Expedition (Led by Stefansson with Captain Bob Bartlett commanding the Karluk).
  • Arctic Reading: Canada
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p. 12: Several of the ship’s company would later recall that Stefansson had been reading about the Jeannetteexpedition just before he left [the Karlak], and they speculated that fear had driven him away.