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In this week’s issue of the Times Literary Supplement, Jonathan Dore reviews Russell A. Potter’s new book “Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search“. It’s a great, detailed review, which also takes a moment to discuss why those on the legendary Franklin expedition should be remembered more in their homeland.
Below is an excerpt from the review. The review can also be found on page 23 of the September 23, 2016 print edition of the TLS or on their website if you are a subscriber.
Mention the name John Franklin in Britain today and you may well be met with a blank look. While the Antarctic heroics of Scott and Shackleton still burn brightly, they seem to have erased from the public consciousness all memory of earlier British exploration of the Polar regions: twenty-four hours after last week’s discovery of HMS Terror off King William Island in Nunavut led news broadcasts across Canada, it had yet to receive a single mention in a BBC news bulletin. But Franklin and his exploring contemporaries – John Rae, William Parry, George Back and John and James Clark Ross among them – were iconic figures of international reputation in the nineteenth century. They deserve to be remembered in the land of their birth.
For most people who heard about it, the sensational discovery of the remains of HMS Erebus in September 2014, and now of her sister ship Terror…
Read the full review (Requires TLS subscription)
By Russell Potter
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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