Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery

Author: David C. Woodman

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992-06

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780773509368

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David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.

Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage

Author: Alan Day

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2006-01-03

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 081086519X

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The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.

Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845
Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845

Author: Stephen Zorn

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-08-25

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 147669219X

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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.

Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-02-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 3382106388

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