4571190
9781845880071
On 18 May 1845 Sir John Franklin set sail with a crew of 134 men on two ships, HMS Terror & HMS Erebus, in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage. The ships were last seen on 26 July by an Arctic whaler & then they vanished. This book, written after his disappearance, sheds light on Arctic exploration in the 19th century.Simmonds, P. L. is the author of 'Sir John Franklin And the Artic Regions ' with ISBN 9781845880071 and ISBN 1845880072.
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