Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mi…

If you like book Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (30)

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.

On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Terror

The men on board 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 …
Buy this book on Amazon
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the context of other expeditions of…
Buy this book on Amazon
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the the…
Buy this book on Amazon
Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition

Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition’s battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which …
Buy this book on Amazon
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.

The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many o…
Buy this book on Amazon
Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage

With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of V…
Buy this book on Amazon
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, invo…
Buy this book on Amazon
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to…
Buy this book on Amazon
Franklin's Fate: an investigation into what happened to the lost 1845 expedition of Sir John Franklin

The 1845 North-West Passage expedition of Sir John Franklin in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with a full company of 129 officers and men, none of whom ever saw England again, was one of the mos…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest …
Buy this book on Amazon
Mornings on Horseback

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hail…
Buy this book on Amazon
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

From the author of End Times

In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history.

Turchin argues that the key…
Buy this book on Amazon
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple & complicated—Operation Mincemeat. Purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Al…
Buy this book on Amazon
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition

James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily determination. When he joined the Franklin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Agatha Raisin: The Complete BBC Radio Drama Collection

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep he…
Buy this book on Amazon
Gulag: A History

The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.

The Gulag …
Buy this book on Amazon
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses be…
Buy this book on Amazon
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition

"May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth" is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the "Erebus" and "Terror" for Sir John Franklin’s fat…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Gods Themselves

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. Bu…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Emperor's Codes

Buy this book on Amazon
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration.

In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely an…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Ice Master

The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

"Intriguing [and] enjoyable." ―Ian McGuire, New York Times Book Review Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror , an…
Buy this book on Amazon
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy

Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventur…
Buy this book on Amazon
Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Ala…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Shining

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but i…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: In Search of Franklin and His Companions

Buy this book on Amazon
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. T…
Buy this book on Amazon
Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen.

But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood H…
Buy this book on Amazon

Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

Similar books (30)

Franklin's Fate: an investigation into what happened to the lost 1845 expedition of Sir John Franklin