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An award-winning, bestselling writer
A page-turner that’s unattainable to put down.
It all began when, in one of the most biggest news stories of the 19th century, Sir John Franklin and his ships the Erebus and the Terror disappeared even as attempting to locate the fabled Northwest Passage. At the request of Franklin’s wife, Lady Jane, the first mission set out from England in hopes of finding him; many others followed in its wake, none successful.
Among these was the Resolute, the finest vessel in Queen Victoria’s Navy. But in 1854 it became locked in Arctic ice and was abandoned by its captain. A year later, a Connecticut whaler discovered it 1,200 miles awaydrifting and deserted, a 600-ton ghost ship. He and his small crew boarded the Resolute, and steered it through a ferocious hurricane back to New London, Connecticut. The United States government then reoutfitted the ship and returned it to the thankful Queen. In 1879, when the Resolute was in spite of everything retired, she had the best timbers made into a desk for then-President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is still used by U.S. presidents today…one of the crucial celebrated pieces of furniture in the White House.