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Offers a history of the Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage of Captain Franklin and his HMS "Terror," and how the mystery of what truly happened to Franklin and his crew on their 1845 voyage was finally solved nearly two centuries later. Readers take on the role of captain, tasked with reading and considering historical evidence, intelligence from Inuit knowledge keepers, archeologists, and forensic scientists to piece together...
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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations,...
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"Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation--a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014"--