How refreshing in a time of general sensitivity to find a book intended to infuriate and debunk. Welcome to the desolate Canadian Arctic, to the mystery of the Franklin expedition, which disappeared in 1845 seeking the North-West Passage, and to a world of disagreement about what happened to it.
Ernest Coleman’s story of his search for clues to Franklin’s fate is delightfully prejudiced and pugnacious.
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