A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many of its officers were the first to fall.

Lost ships and cannibalism alone make for an enduring mystery, but there’s one more looming question. The Victory Point note stated that “the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to ...

“May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Expedition” Edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson; McGill-Queen’s University Press ...

Not a life was lost. (One of the best accounts of this episode can be found in Roland Huntford’s biography “ Shackleton ,” which I reviewed in the Book World issue of Dec. 29, 1985 ...

The Arctic lost to time: Amazing archive photos chart a daring 19th-century attempt to reach the North Pole. The Nansen Photographs tells the story of how 12 men set off from Norway in 1893 in a ...

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