{"product_id":"2026200015255-secondhand-search-for-franklin-the-story-of-one-of-the-great-dramas-of-polar-exploration","title":"Search For Franklin: The Story Of One Of The Great Dramas Of Polar Exploration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one of the most gripping sagas in the annals of exploration. Search for Franklin chronicles the ill-fated 1845 voyage of Sir John Franklin, who led 128 officers and men aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror into the treacherous Northwest Passage, never to return, and the remarkable series of rescue missions that followed over the ensuing decade as the Victorian world refused to accept that such a celebrated expedition could simply disappear into the ice.\n\nLeslie H. Neatby, a distinguished Canadian historian with a commanding authority on Arctic history, presents this tragedy and its aftermath with meticulous scholarship and a vividly narrative prose style that transforms archival records into living drama. The work illuminates the extraordinary courage of the rescue expeditions, the political pressures bearing down on the Admiralty, and the heartbreaking persistence of Franklin's widow, Lady Jane Franklin, who funded multiple searches at her own expense. Rooted in primary sources yet written with the pace of high adventure, Search for Franklin leaves the reader haunted by the ultimate question that lingers still: what truly happened in those silent, frozen straits?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203204784347,"sku":"2026200015255-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/de7d97d3-34b1-4a6d-85e4-1d09c63df9dd.png?v=1788145664","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015255-secondhand-search-for-franklin-the-story-of-one-of-the-great-dramas-of-polar-exploration","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}