Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve ...

Dr John Rae, explorer based in Canada, found out about the fate of the expedition. But definite evidence of Franklin's death was not found until 1859 when Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock led a ...

Woodman (McGill-Queen’s, 1991). An extensive analysis of Inuit oral testimony, often graphic. Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition, by Scott Cookman (John Wiley, ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...