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Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin expedition Cover Image Book Book

Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin expedition

Watson, Paul 1959- (author.).

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Where War Lives and expedition member describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845,"--NoveList.

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  • ISBN: 9780393355864
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxii, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-367) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I. The Expedition -- Franklin's Last Mission -- HMS Erebus and Terror -- Frozen In -- Part II. The Hunt -- The Hunt Begins -- Lady Franklin's Mission -- The Arctic Committee -- Ghost Ships -- Starvation Cove -- Part III. The Discovery -- An Inuk Detective -- He Who Takes Long Strides -- Operation Franklin -- The Hunt Goes Underwater -- Skull Island -- Fast Ice -- "That's It!" -- Terror Bay -- An Offering to the Dead.

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Subject: Franklin, John 1786-1847
Erebus (Ship)
Terror (Ship)
John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851)
Inuit Arctic regions
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
HISTORY / Polar Regions
Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British
Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British
Arctic regions Discovery and exploration
Genre: History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Greenwood Public Library.

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Maps
xii
Chronology xvii
Introduction xxi
PART I The Expedition
1 Franklin's Last Mission
3(19)
2 HMS Erebus and Terror
22(12)
3 Frozen In
34(23)
PART II The Hunt
4 The Hunt Begins
57(29)
5 Lady Franklin's Mission
86(23)
6 The Arctic Committee
109(24)
7 Ghost Ships
133(13)
8 Starvation Cove
146(31)
PART III The Discovery
9 An Inuk Detective
177(25)
10 He Who Takes Long Strides
202(29)
11 Operation Franklin
231(17)
12 The Hunt Goes Underwater
248(25)
13 Skull Island
273(13)
14 Fast Ice
286(21)
15 "That's It!"
307(17)
16 Terror Bay
324(13)
17 An Offering to the Dead
337(6)
Afterword 343(4)
Acknowledgments 347(2)
Source Notes 349(20)
Credits 369(2)
Index 371

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