Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Potter, Russell A.
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Potter, Russell A.

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

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had...
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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Potter, Russell A.

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

$527.71
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Potter, Russell A.

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

$527.71
Author: Russell A. Potter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 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 one of the 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 numerous 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, often obsessive, men and women who embarked on them. Potter discusses the crucial role that Inuit oral accounts, often 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 contemporary debates over the significance of Franklin's achievement. While examination of HMS Erebus will undoubtedly reveal further details of this mystery, Finding Franklin assembles the stories behind the myth and illuminates what is ultimately a remarkable decades-long discovery.

Author: Russell A. Potter
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 07/26/2016
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780773547841


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2016
Choice 02/01/2017

About the Author
Russell A. Potter is professor of English at Rhode Island College and the author of Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875.


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