Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845
by
Garth Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years’ worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later, when their bleached bones, broken instruments, books, papers and personal effects began to be recovered...