| Frozen in Time |  | Authors: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
Publisher: Grafton
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 378882
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0586203206
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8
EAN: 9780586203200
ASIN: 0586203206
Publication Date: February 23, 1989
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The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "debility" aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the Arctic than did Franklin during his first. Both expeditions were forced to retreat because of the rapacious illness that stalked their ships. Frozen in Time makes the case that this illness (starting with the Back expedition) was due to the crews' overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods. This not only exposed the seamen to lead, an insidious poison - as has been demonstrated in Franklin's case by Dr. Beattie's research - but it also left them vulnerable to scurvy, the ancient scourge of seafarers which had been thought to have been largely cured in the early years of the nineteenth century. Fully revised, Frozen in Time will update the research outlined in the original edition, and will introduce independent confirmation of Dr. Beattie's lead hypothesis, along with corroboration of his discovery of physical evidence for both scurvy and cannibalism. In addition, the book includes a new introduction written by Margaret Atwood, who has long been fascinated by the role of the Franklin Expedition in Canada's literary conscience, and has made a pilgrimage to the site of the Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island.
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 Amazing March 14, 2009
Robert E. Baggott (Columbia, SC)
Fascinating look into the lives of these explorers. It really brings it all to life. Outstanding book. I would also recommend reading The Terror. Its a good novel based on the same expidition.
 Fascinatingly morbid December 8, 2008
Brandygurl (USA)
I remember my 5th grade teacher having this book in her classroom for us to peruse at our leisure. The pictures still haunt me to this day. Horrific circumstances befell the Franklin Expedition...horrors that both intrigue and repel the mind. It's been a little over a decade since I've read this book. I highly recommend it to those who are not easily disturbed. Can't say I was one of them.
Mortality and the Frozen North November 15, 2008
J. Brian Watkins (San Dimas, CA United States)
Having read Dan Simmons' novelization of the Franklin expedition, I picked up this volume curious to learn more about what modern explorers had found. Though there is plenty of detail about the frozen north and the rigors of arctic exploration, the type of discovery chronicled in the story is not so much geographical as scientific--being centered primarily in the analysis of the bodies carefully interred by the Franklin expedition itself over 130 years ago.
The authors carefully lay out the mystery of the Franklin expedition and then persuasively argue their thesis, which I will not give away here--no spoilers in this review. It is enough to realize that the tale warns that dangers lurk in the familiar as well as the foreign and that we cannot be too careful regarding our surroundings.
This was a quick and interesting read as well as an important commentary on the costs and benefits of exploration. One wonders whether our civilization has lost something now that our world has been mapped and explored; we seem to have lost the desire to find new frontiers--to pay the costs of discovery--and are all the poorer for it.
Recommended.
A great addition to the story of Arctic discovery April 8, 2008
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2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book excited me, the prospect of revisiting the Franklin expedition in such a way as done by the author was the reason I picked it up. He delivers in a clear way, a brief history of the events leading up to Franklin's attempt at the Northwest Passage and subsequent demise as well as the numerous tries at rescue and later attempts to learn of the Franklin party's fate. This book puts to rest the "Franklin's Folly" view of man and puts the reader at the graves during the exhumations. I only wish there were more photos showing areas along the route they followed where artifacts were found. Occasionally the author attempts and fails to write with flare of an adventure writer, these bits come off as awkward, but don't last long and it's back to what he does well: provide clear pictures of what he did.
Great read! March 30, 2008
A.D. Boswell (Sacramento, California)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This new edition of Frozen in Time expands on the history of early British Arctic exploration and places the tragically fated Franklin expedition in the context of other expeditions of the era, including those commanded by George Back and James Clark Ross, which also suffered unaccountable and devastating losses. The authors' research reveals an unexpected -- and ironic -- cause for the mystery illness that befell the explorers. Never-before-seen photographs from the exhumations, updated research results, additional forensic corroboration, and a new introduction by Margaret Atwood complete this fascinating account.
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