Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845: The Facts and Mysteries of the Failed Northwest Passage Voyage - Couverture souple

Zorn, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147669219X ISBN 13 : 9781476692197

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2023

Synopsis

The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it?

This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Zorn is a retired lawyer and law professor. He was a government official in Papua New Guinea, a United Nations technical adviser and a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147669219X
• ISBN 13: 9781476692197
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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