
Searching for Franklin
New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $17.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Bob Souer
-
By:
-
Ken McGoogan
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage.
This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?
The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land.
Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin's expeditions, including the explorer's lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened?
©2023 Ken McGoogan (P)2024 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


















That being said, good lord the narrator is awful. I mean, first of all could they not find a British guy?? This should’ve been read by a British guy. But beyond that, the narrator genuinely sounds like an AI voice and I’m still not 100% convinced it’s not. Really weird, stilted inflection, strange pauses in places that don’t make sense, and no emotion. It’s a crime, because this is such a fascinating story!
Great story with poor narrator
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amazing and in depth
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Terrible narrator that sounds like AI.
This Isn’t The Book You Want It To Be
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.