A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “”Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting a ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, ...
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and ...
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The explorer who ate his own boots to stay alive
The history of Arctic exploration reads like a catalog of human suffering, but few stories capture the desperation of survival quite like John Franklin's first overland expedition. Before Franklin ...
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