Franklin’s missive is one of nearly 200 letters found in a sizable volume of correspondence from expedition participants gathered together and recently published under the title “May We Be ...

Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination ...

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out from England with 128 men aboard two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, on a mission to discover the Northwest Passage — a famed sea route from the ...

Franklin emerged a hero, however, hailed by his countrymen as “The Man Who Ate His Boots” owing to the fact that expedition members resorted to eating leather during their tortured retreat south.

The fate of the Franklin expedition was popularized by Dan Simmons’s 2007 novel, “The Terror,” in which the crew is hounded by a bloodthirsty beast. In its opening pages, ...

Douglas R. Stenton, Stephen Fratpietro, Robert W. Park. Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports ...

In Unraveling the Franklin Mystery, Woodman notes that only one Inuit account of the Franklin expedition is “universally accepted among historians.”Rae outlined the earliest version of this ...

The last Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin began in 1845 with the hope of discovering the northwest passage, but it turned into a grim fight for survival. As seen in AMC's supernatural series ...

Owing to its tragic end, still wrapped in mystery 18 decades later, we tend not to equate the word “optimism” with the Franklin Expedition. Its failure was so catastrophic that we easily ...

The Franklin Expedition began with remarkable promise. Franklin was already a famed explorer (his expedition journals are available online), with three previous Arctic expeditions under his belt.

This sketch, by Commander May R.N., circa 1853, depicts one the missions to find the Franklin expedition, which vanished in 1845. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption ...

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out with two ships to chart the Northwest Passage. He and his crew were never heard from again. Until their belongings began turning up on the Canadian tundra.