Frozen In Time: The Fate of The Franklin Expedition |  | Authors: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
Publisher: Sterling
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Pages: 180
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1550546163
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.804
EAN: 9781550546163
ASIN: 1550546163
Publication Date: March 2000
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"Simply compelling."--Mordecai Richler. "A cautionary tale of scholarly merit."--William S. Burroughs. "Chilling...will keep you up nights turning pages."--Peter Gorner, The Chicago Tribune. In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off, determined to "penetrate the icy fastness" of the Arctic. But he and his 129 men never made it. For the next 35 years, more than 20 major rescue parties searched fruitlessly for the vanished expedition. In this updated version of a bestseller that sold over 118,000 copies, a top forensic anthropologist and a historian tell the dramatic tale of excavating three sailors from the Franklin party. The bodies, well preserved by the permafrost, gave up their secrets to 20th century science, and the researchers pieced together a story of horrific starvation, scurvy, and cannibalism...Absolutely unforgettable--with photos in both color and black and white. The authors both live in Alberta, Canada. 192 pages, 43 color illus., 5 x 7 3/4.
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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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