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Russell A. Potter’s new book Finding Franklin, was recently reviewed by the National Post. The review came out just days before the discovery of the HMS Terror which has since fuelled Franklin fever in the news and with Franklin enthusiasts around the world!
Below is an excerpt from the review.
The Erebus and the Terror. Ships from the 1845 Franklin expedition of Sir John Franklin. Painting by J. Franklin Wright. From National Post book review.
In an early passage of his new book, Finding Franklin, Russell A. Potter describes the amateur’s infatuation with Franklin’s lost expedition clinically: an infection passed across centuries and near impossible to treat, over the years driving hoards of its cursed and curious to fame, bankruptcy and exile. He goes on to catalogue the infected, assembling a cast without discrimination, artfully spotlighting theories from notable cultural heavyweights alongside the boneyard of long-discredited historical ideologues.
Potter is himself a shameless Frankliphile, hopelessly diseased. You might call this his microbial handshake.
Dwindling through the last few decades, this contaminant crowd has come with the latest Franklin Expedition discovery back into vogue, ruling what could be Canada’s coolest intellectual cadre. Finding Franklin is their story, told across two centuries, spanning the mystery of Sir John Franklin’s expedition from its 1845 departure to, probably, last night’s dinner table for many of the modern devotees featured within. The result is an easily digested primer, scholarly in research but accessible in approach, slipping into 2016’s fall book circuit auspiciously.
The full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.
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 find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arctic’s greatest mysteries. Read more>
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