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Book Launch: For Glory, Not Gold — Tracing the Legacy of Arctic Exploration

Join the Explorers Club, on Friday, October 17th, for a deep dive into the history and present day of Arctic exploration, along with the launch of Hubert Sagnières’ new book For Glory, Not Gold. This exceptional volume showcases ten major international arctic expeditions carried out between 1818 and 1875, tracing the journeys of intrepid explorers from the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. These courageous nautical pioneers braved icy conditions and the vast unknown in search of the coveted northern passage. Through text drawn from journals and travelogues, readers gain firsthand insight into fascinating figures—Sir Edward Parry, Sir John Ross, Sir John Franklin, Joseph René Bellot, John Rae, Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, and Sir George Nares—as well as the epic expedition onboard the HMS Investigator. The beautifully produced and oversize volume features illustrations, engravings, maps, and rare documents from the author’s personal collection of rare books and source material. Above all, this tome serves as a reminder that beyond the purely commercial goals of the quest to create a northern trade route, the arctic and the North Pole have always fueled the imagination, inspiring the most extreme nineteenth-century expeditions by heroic explorers who were driven by an insatiable thirst for new territories. This event will feature a cocktail reception from 6-7 PM, followed by a panel conversation with Mike Beedell, Éric Brossier, and Hubert Sagnières. With over 300 original illustrations and excerpts from explorers’ journals, immerse yourself in the dramas, discoveries, and encounters that defined the pursuit of the Northwest Passage. Speakers Hubert Sagnières Discover, explore, share–that might well be Hubert Sagnières’ motto. There was a time when this inveterate traveler traveled with his family through the islands of the South Pacific, following in the footsteps of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and Jean-François de Lapérouse. In 1991, as head of a large French industrial group, he moved to Canada and, fired by his passion for the Far North, went on more than twenty winter polar expeditions to the Canadian Arctic with his explorer friend Mike Beedell. He traveled on skis pulling a pulk or supported by a dog-drawn qamutiik. He explored the shores of Baffin, Ellesmere and Axel-Heilberg Island, surveying this polar world about which we know so little. On May 10, 2022, at the end of a particularly grueling ski expedition, he and his children celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday on Beechey Island. To one side of them stood Joseph-René Bellot’s cenotaph, to the other the graves of Sir John Franklin’s sailors. In his hand were the accounts of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane and Sir Francis Leopold McClintock. Hubert Sagnières is forever a devotee of the Arctic’s unique magic. His first book Routes nouvelles, côtes inconnues (Daring French Explorations) was published by Flammarion in 2023. Two years later, it was only natural that he should share his knowledge of the Far North, together with his enduring affection for the inhabitants of the Arctic, in a new work featuring the unpublished books and documents in his collection.