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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

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In 2014 media all over 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 probably the most 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 a lot of 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, ceaselessly obsessive, women and men who embarked on them. Potter discusses the the most important role that Inuit oral accounts, ceaselessly 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 up to date debates over the significance of Franklin’s achievement. At the same time as examination of HMS Erebus will undoubtedly reveal further details of this mystery, Finding Franklin assembles the stories in the back of the myth and illuminates what is in the long run a remarkable decades-long discovery.

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