Amazing
Fascinating look into the lives of these explorers. It really brings it all to life. Outstanding book. I would also recommend reading The Terror. Its a good novel based on the same expidition.
Fascinatingly morbid
I remember my 5th grade teacher having this book in her classroom for us to peruse at our leisure. The pictures still haunt me to this day. Horrific circumstances befell the Franklin Expedition...horrors that both intrigue and repel the mind. It's been a little over a decade since I've read this book. I highly recommend it to those who are not easily disturbed. Can't say I was one of them.
Mortality and the Frozen North
Having read Dan Simmons' novelization of the Franklin expedition, I picked up this volume curious to learn more about what modern explorers had found. Though there is plenty of detail about the frozen north and the rigors of arctic exploration, the type of discovery chronicled in the story is not so much geographical as scientific--being centered primarily in the analysis of the bodies carefully interred by the Franklin expedition itself over 130 years ago.
The authors carefully lay out the mystery of the Franklin expedition and then persuasively argue their thesis, which I will not give away here--no spoilers in this review. It is enough to realize that the tale warns that dangers lurk in the familiar as well as the foreign and that we cannot be too careful regarding our surroundings.
This was a quick and interesting read as well as an important commentary on the costs and benefits of exploration. One wonders whether our civilization has lost something now that our world has been mapped and explored; we seem to have lost the desire to find new frontiers--to pay the costs of discovery--and are all the poorer for it.
Recommended.
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