Tracking the Franklin Expedition Of 1845 : The Facts and Mysteries of the Failed Northwest Passage Voyage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zorn, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British.

Northwest Passage.

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--British.

Arctic regions.

John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851).

John Franklin Arctic Expedition.

Franklin, John, 1786-1847.

Franklin, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"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 themselves, 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 mystery that may never be fully solved."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Known Knowns

2. A Quantum Theory of History

3. Erebus and Terror

4. Who Sailed with Franklin?

5. Beechey Island

6. Westward Ho?

7. Which Side of King William Island?

8. Winter 1846-47 and Spring 1847

9. The Second Winter Trapped in the Ice

10. Where Did They Go?

11. Return to the Ships? Mutiny?

12. Off the Beaten Path-But Where?

13. What Killed Them-and When?

14. Cannibalism

15. Survivors?

16. Sir John's Grave

17. Franklin's Legacy

18. What Do the Recent Discoveries Mean

Appendix I: The Victory Point Record

Appendix II: Erebus and Terror Muster Rolls

Appendix III: Sir John Franklin's Sailing Orders

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Zorn, Stephen Tracking the Franklin Expedition Of 1845

ISBN:

1-4766-5114-0