Frozen in Time Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition

Frozen in Time-Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition

Hardcover. Zustand: As New in As New jacket. 1st Edition. From their ice-shrouded graves, three 19th-century seamen reveal the chilling fate of a doomed Arctic expedition. Book and jacket in excellent condition; with b/w & coloured decorated half title, plates, maps & illustrations; tight and clean A reconstruction of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1848 when the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus disappeared, made possible by the discovery of a bleached human skull, found by the team working with anthropologist Dr Owen Beattie on 29 June 1981. This led to 3 further scientific expeditions over the next five years, during which time more information was pieced together. The bodies of 3 Victorian seamen were found on King William Island, well preserved by the permafrost for 133 years which enabled twentieth century forensic and anthropological scientists to uncover the mystery. Also revealed were the circumstances by which the surviving members of Franklin's elite naval forces came within sight of the Northwest Passage, which was their journey's goal, only to succumb to the horrors of starvation, scurvy and cannibalism. Artikel-Nr. 000193

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