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BEATTIE, OWEN & GEIGER, JOHN Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition
Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Western Producer Prairie Books. 1989. (ISBN: 0 88833 303 X) Pictorial Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Owen Beattie (cover photographs). Second paperback printing. Crease to back corner of cover; front endpaper removed; neat inscription on title page. Very clean, sound copy. 180 pages including: detailed Index; Bibliography; Appendix One - List of officers and crew of HMS "Erebus" and "Terror"; Appendix Two - Major expeditions involved in the search for HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror". Numerous black and white illustrations: maps, sketches, reproductions of contemporary drawings, photographs from expedition. 12 pages of colour photographs. The truth of what happened on Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845-48 was long shrouded in mystery. The excavations and research described in this book unravel the circumstances of the disaster which befell the crew. Twentieth-century forensic and anthropological science, used in the examination of the astonishingly well-preserved bodies of three Victorian seamen exhumed from the permafrost of Beechey Island, determined their fate. A gripping tale of cannibalism, bureaucratic hubris, great courage and ground-breaking science. Good/No Jacket (as published).
Offered for US$ 16.00 by: Literacy Nanaimo - Book number: 003532
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