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Finding Franklin - The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search (Hardcover)
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Finding Franklin - The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search (Hardcover)
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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 Franklin'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 Arctic's greatest
mysteries. In compelling and accessible prose, Russell Potter
details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of
modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared
research and ideas have led to a fuller understanding of the
Franklin crew's final months. Illustrated with numerous 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
Franklin'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.
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