Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration.—Booklist

"A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time."—The Scotsman

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