Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition

ISBN: 9781472948694 出版年:2017 页码:178 Gillian Hutchinson Bloomsbury Publishing

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In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set oto find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the crews of two whaling ships in Baffin Bay in July 184they entered the labyrinth of the Arctic Archipelago. The loss of this British hero and his crew, and texpeditions and searches that followed, captured the public imagination, but the mystery surrounding the expedition's fate only deepened as more cluHow did Franklin's final expedition end in tragedy? What happened to the crew? The thrilling discoveries in the Arctic of the wrecks of Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016 have brought the events of 170 years ago into sharp focus and excited new interest in the Franklin expeditioillustrated book is an essential guide to this story of heroism, endurance, tragedy and dark desperation.

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