Frozen in time : unlocking the secrets of the Franklin expedition
(2017)
By:
Beattie, Owen
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Greystone Books , 2017
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781771641746 (electronic bk.) MWT11905538, 1771641746 (electronic bk.) 11905538
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn't come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered one of the lost ships: Erebus
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