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Book

Erebus : one ship, two epic voyages, and the greatest naval mystery of all time

Call Number

  • 919.8 P162 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books, [2018]

Physical Description

xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation--a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014"--

Contents

  • Made in Wales
  • Magnetic North
  • Magnetic South
  • Far-off shores
  • "Our southern home"
  • "Farther south than any (known) human being has been"
  • Dancing with the captains
  • "Pilgrims of the ocean"
  • "Such a wretched place as this you never saw"
  • "Three years from Gillingham"
  • Homeward bound
  • "So little now remains to be done"
  • North by north-west
  • No signal
  • The truth
  • Life and death
  • The Inuit story
  • Resurrection.

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