Description
The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic looking for the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to at the present time no person knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths.
Although the expedition didn’t run out of food, there’s clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried 2 hundred message cylinders with them, yet failed to go away records. Stranger still, an in advance explorer, Thomas Simpson, used to be reputedly murdered for the “secret of the Northwest Passage.” What used to be this “secret”?
The Franklin Conspiracy is an exhaustively researched, compellingly reasoned answer to that question. The result is a shocking saga of conspiracy, cover-up, and incredible secrets.