Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklinâ€™s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arcticâ€™s greatest mysteries.

In compelling prose, Russell Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches and elucidates how shared research and ideas have led to a fuller understanding of the Franklin crewâ€™s final months. Illustrated with images and maps from the last two centuries, Finding Franklin recounts the more than fifty searches for traces of his ships and crew, and the dedicated, often obsessive, men and women who embarked on them. Potter discusses the crucial role that Inuit oral accounts, often cited but rarely understood, played in all of these searches, and continue to play to this day, and offers historical and cultural context to the contemporary debates over the significance of Franklinâ€™s achievement.

While examination of HMS Erebus will undoubtedly reveal further details of this mystery, Finding Franklin assembles the stories behind the myth and illuminates what is ultimately a remarkable decades-long discovery.
Country USA
Author Russell A. Potter
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9780773599628
Format Kindle eBook
Label MQUP
Manufacturer MQUP
NumberOfPages 280
PublicationDate 2016-09-01
Publisher MQUP
ReleaseDate 2016-09-01
Studio MQUP

Country	USA
Author	Russell A. Potter
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780773599628
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	MQUP
Manufacturer	MQUP
NumberOfPages	280
PublicationDate	2016-09-01
Publisher	MQUP
ReleaseDate	2016-09-01
Studio	MQUP

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

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