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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: David C. Woodman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John
Finding Franklin
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Russell A. Potter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-01 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship o
Encounters on the Passage
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Dorothy Harley Eber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two
The Terror
Language: en
Pages: 798
Authors: Dan Simmons
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-08 - Publisher: Little, Brown

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The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expediti
James Fitzjames
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: William Battersby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-09 - Publisher: Dundurn

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James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily de