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The collaboration was made possible by Dr. Orla Sherlock, Ms. Amanda Kearns, Ms. Maryellen Kelledy, and Denise McKitterick ...
Science communicator Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on Monday 7 July on a voyage following that of Leopold McClintock, who was known ...
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Explorersweb on MSNRare Arctic Button Sells for $8,000These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...
A rare Arctic rescue button was sold at auction on Tuesday for £6,000, which was 10 times its pre sale estimate. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks, of Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood in Exeter, said ...
SUPPLEMENT: In 1849, the Admiralty sent out two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a mission to find the North West Passage. The mystery of what happened to the ships of the Franklin ...
During the grueling journey, 11 of Franklin’s 20 men perished. Agony, murder, starvation and, it’s quite apparent, cannibalism occurred. It was hardly a valiant effort.
In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel ...
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