franklin, john

"In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and his men, and what messages did they leave behind?"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the disappearance of the John Franklin Arctic Expedition, in which two ships searching for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic vanished.

The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes comman and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.

Probes the tragic and mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage in 1845.

"Follows the travels of British explorer Sir John Franklin on his doomed expedition to the Arctic ... Topics include: the search for a Northwest Passage through the Arctic, life stuck in the ice, contact with the native Inuit, Franklin's disappearance, and the long quest to discover the expedition's fate."--Provided by publisher.

When Sir John Franklin disappears while searching for the North West Passage in 1845, his wife Lady Jane sends out numerous expeditions to search for him and eventually learns the awful fate of her husband and crew, but also maps new waterways and land masses.

Probes the tragic and mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage in 1845.

Presents the fictional journal of fourteen-year-old Peter Griffin in which he describes his adventures as a member of an expedition to the frozen lands of the Arctic sea in search of clues to what happened to Sir John Franklin, an explorer who set out twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest passage.

Provides an account of the Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin in 1845 when he and a crew of 129 officers and men set out from Greenland in search of a navigable shortcut to the Atlantic and Pacific, only to become lost without a sign for fourteen years when searchers finally found evidence that the mission had met with disaster.