Bibliograph

The Franklin conspiracy:, cover-up, betrayal, and the astonishing secret behind the lost Arctic expedition

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The Franklin conspiracy:, cover-up, betrayal, and the astonishing secret behind the lost Arctic expedition

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Franklin conspiracy:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

cover-up, betrayal, and the astonishing secret behind the lost Arctic expedition

Summary

The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths. Although the expedition did not run out of food, there is clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried two hundred message cylinders with them, yet failed to leave records. Stranger still, an earlier explorer, Thomas Simpson, was reputedly murdered for the "secret of the Northwest Passage." What was this "secret"? The Franklin Conspiracy is an exhaustively researched, compellingly reasoned answer to that question. The result is a shocking saga of conspiracy, cover-up, and unbelievable secrets

Target audience

adult

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