Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time (Hardcover)

from Eyejaybee

I have to confess to having been completely ignorant of HMS Erebus until reading this book. That is a woeful confession because the ship had two notable, although quite separate, claims to fame. It, although perhaps by convention I should say ‘she', was originally commissioned for the Royal Navy ...

from DramMan

Well researched, detailed account of the life and times of HMS Erebus, from construction in 1826 to its rediscovery on the seabed in northern Canada, in 2014, including of course the ill fated Franklin expedition, in 1845. Palin tells a good tale, weaving in details of his travels to places assoc...

from waltzmn

HMS Erebus was abandoned 170 years ago. You'd think we'd know the end of her story by now. This is an unusual book in that it is specifically about Erebus. Usually books about this ship are also about James Clark Ross's or John Franklin's expeditions, and talk so much about Erebus and her frequen...

from alexbolding

Beautifully written Victorian arctic explorer travelogue with classic understated tongue-in-cheek humour (the man ‘who ate his boots' turned into the biggest arctic hero Britain ever had). Of course the mystery of the disappearance into a void of the Franklin expedition in the 1850s and the disco...

from TonyaJ

I was thrilled to receive this book from the Early Reviewers September batch. Michael Palin excels in detailing the history of the bomb ship Erebus. Comprehensive in scope, you get to know the players involved and those we know from the limited TV series The Terror. Just wonderful.