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Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Sir Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, Reliving The Voyages And Investigating The Ship Itself, Lost On The Final Franklin Expedition And Discovered With The Help Of Inuit Knowledge In 2014. The Story Of A Ship Begins After The Defeat Of Napoleon At Waterloo, When Great Britain Had More Bomb Ships Than It Had Enemies. The Solid, Reinforced Hulls Of Hms Erebus, And Another Bomb Ship, Hms Terror, Made Them Suitable For Discovering What Lay At The Coldest Ends Of The Earth. In 1839, Erebus Was Chosen As The Flagship Of An Expedition To Penetrate South To Explore Antarctica. Under The Leadership Of The Charismatic James Clark Ross, She And Hms Terror Sailed Further South Than Anyone Had Been Before. But Antarctica Never Captured The National Imagination; What The British Navy Needed Now Was Confirmation Of Its Superiority By Making The Discovery, Once And For All, Of A Route Through The North-west Passage. Chosen To Lead The Mission Was Sir John Franklin, At 59 Someone Many Considered Too Old For Such A Hazardous Journey. Nevertheless, He And His Men Confidently Saile
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- Author
- Michael Palin
- Publisher
- Vintage Books Canada
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780735274297
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- Engineering, Stem
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (5,023 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14