Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition, (Paperback)

from dickcraig

I have read several stories of the Franklin Expedition. This book covered material others didn't. I was especially interested in the background of , the supplier of the tinned food taken on the expedition. Between his greed and the drive of the British navy to cut corners at almost any costs, it ...

from CasaBooks

Heard about this particular book from a client who had a family member searching by air for any remains/artifacts from this expedition.It's of great interest and I have other books on the subject, also.Started reading aloud with Winston - during the summer on the MI cottage sunny hillside. But, h...

from RebeccaAnn

It says something about a nonfiction book when you have a hard time putting it down. But this book was amazing. It's in a much more readable style than Frozen in Time was, and it focused exclusively on the Franklin expedition and the probable factors in its fate, whereas Frozen in Time focused mo...

from rapotter

A remarkably error- and conjecture-filled book -- nevertheless, contains much useful information about Franklin's last expedition that's hard to get elsewhere, such as crew-lists complete with names, and Admiralty documents on the ships' outfitting. Here's a copy of the review I wrote when the bo...

from waltzmn

The problem of historical mysteries is that they are often very hard to solve. The problem with mystical historians is that they often think they can solve them anyway. We know, in very broad outline, what happened to John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition: The men went to the ice, they wer...