While reading Dan Simmons's The Terror, I wasn't aware that the story was based on a true expedition at first. I'm a poor student of history, and I honestly don't believe I was ever taught about it anyway. In the Victorian era there was Northwest Passage fever, and many expeditions endeavored to fin...
This is the study that re-define or "solved" the mystery of Franklin (you know, one of those stories where white men act like stupid white men). The introduction is by Atwood, and the thesis is proven pretty well. It is a good read, even with the science.
There is no publisher's description up for this book, and it's out just today. I heard an interview this a.m. on cbc with the author. It sounds fascinating. Check out these comments from the author's website:"John Geiger's book, his fifth ... offers an original theory for the evolutionary importa...
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