![]() Woodman (mentioned in PinkMoose's first link) is excellent. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony by David C. Posted by rongorongo at 10:24 PM on Decemīest answer: (Please imagine these as being shouted up by someone who is a long way down (but certainly not at the bottom) of the Franklin Expedition nerdery rabbit hole, who was part-way down that rabbit hole when she read The Terror ten years ago, was generally appreciative of the efforts made by the series regarding history but still has a tendency to mutter things like "that tin opener hadn't been invented yet".) Seeing this tomb was how I became curious about him. And he does have an absolutely un-missable tomb in St Magnus' Cathedral, Orkney. But, I think now we can see how far ahead of his time he was. Thanks to the influence of these people Rae received no knighthoods or other recognition for his achievements. His report to the British admiralty included the detail that the expedition members had resorted to cannibalism - and this did not go down at all well with Franklin's backers in London. Rae learnt about the Franklin expedition's fate from local inuit contacts. From them he picked up the sort of survival skills that allowed him to become one of the first Europeans to be able to survive winter in the high Arctic without a supply ship. Rae's achievements came from listening carefully to indigenous people at a time when others were not. The fact that he is thus not a much better known figure stems from his falling fowl of various influential Victorian figures in Britain at the time: notably Sir Charles Dickens and Lady Jane Franklin. ![]() He uncovered the two most important mysteries in the region: firstly the location of the last navigable link that would complete the North West Passage - and secondly the fate of the missing Franklin expedition: claiming the prize for doing so. Rae was a medic who became surgeon to the Hudson Bay Company. I would strongly recommend Fatal Passage - by Ken McGoogan which is about under-appreciated Orcadian explorer, John Rae. Posted by Sunburnt at 5:47 PM on December 28, 2020 The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818–1909 by Pierre Berton (Second Lyons Press Edition, © 2000) > Three books that were especially important to me in the early stages of research were Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., © 2000) įrozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger (Greystone Books, Douglas & McIntyre, © 1987) and And this one on HMS Erebus is written by Michael Palin, one of the great comedy (both performing and writing) talents of the 20th century, so it's guaranteed to be readable.Īlso, a redditor quotes the entirety of the Acknowledgements page appended to Dan Simmons' book, which includes at the top these 3 books, as follows: Ship biographies can be pretty interesting, like Billy Ruffian, about the storied HMS Bellerophon. If I were you, I'd crack the cover of Erebus: The Story of a Ship. I know it was a lot of online stuff, though, not books back then I had a job where I could listen to audiobooks all day while counting money. ![]() ![]() I'm struggling to remember how I would've read so much about this voyage before I read the 2007 The Terror novel while on nautical history kick which carried me into the Franklin Expedition story. ![]()
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