Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 0224082310
Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316003883
The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802137944
Describes a series of nineteenth-century British expeditions into Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, chronicling the adventures of explorers who ventured into some of the most perilous unknown regions of the world.
Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1446402894
Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascination characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and politicians, sceptics and tireless believers. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history - a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly.
Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0520269950
The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. Until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice. Voyagers faced unimaginable horrors--entire ships crushed, mass starvation, disabling frostbite, even cannibalism--in pursuit of a futile goal. Glyn Williams charts the entire sweep of this extraordinary history, from the tiny, woefully equipped vessels of the first Tudor expeditions to the twentieth-century ventures that finally opened the Passage.
Author : Paul Watson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0771096534
The true story of the greatest mystery of Arctic exploration—and the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge that led to the shipwreck's recent discovery. Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Franklin Expedition—whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered and the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones—until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.
Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0307276562
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.
Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher :
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781299270091
Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781845950200
Author : Catherine M. Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781872375052
