Ice Blink The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

Name: Ice Blink The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
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ISBN: 9780471404200

ISBN-10: 0471404209

ISBN-13: 9780471404200

Edition: 2000 (Expurgated)

Authors: Scott Cookman

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"An absorbing account . . . readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration." -Kirkus Reviews It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845, in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing upon original research, Scott Cookman vividly reconstructs the voyage and presents a…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Author Scott Cookman was born in 1952. He wrote two outdoor adventure histories and wrote both cooking features and how-to advice articles for Field and Stream magazine. He died in 2007.



Preface



The Epitaphs



Messages from the Dead



The Enigma: Sir John



The Passage



Two Ships



Specters



Ships' Commanders



Ships' Companies



Outward Bound



Beechey Island



The Last Summer



Beset



Imprisoned



The Curse



The Culprit



Houndsditch



Schedules



The Dying Time



Killer at Large



The Death March



Cannibalism



The Culprit's Footprints



The Empty Prize


Afterword: Anatomy of a Disaster



Provisions



Northwest Passage Voyages: Mortality Rates



Mid-Nineteenth-Century Naval Medicine



Expedition Muster


Bibliography


Index