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After taking a job as a governess at the Copper Beeches, Violet Hunter's employers ask her to cut her hair and wear a special dress, but when she finds a lock of hair that looks like her own and a mysterious hallway, Violet asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help.

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 life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer who fell short of his goal of crossing Antarctica, but accomplished a far greater feat by bringing every member of his crew back alive.

Exploration of a classic including a chronology of the author's life, historical content of the work, and its critical reception.

This is the biography of the international hero who, along with his Sherpa climbing partner, reached the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

Provides an account of the expedition mounted by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton to be the first to cross the entire continent of Antarctica in 1914.