Ice Ghosts

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led one of the discovery expeditions, tells a fast paced historical adventure story and reveals how a combination of faith in Inuit knowledge and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. New Read [ Ice Ghosts ] author [ Paul Watson ] – kino-fada.fr I am fascinated by anything to do with the Arctic, a place I will never go, truth to tell probably not even want to go, but I love reading about this extremely cold, ice packed place Add in the Franklin Expedition and the very long effort it took to find the wrecks of Erebus and Terror, and I m all in.Starts in 1845 with the expedition itself, for John Franklin, now in his seventies this is his last ditch effort to find and complete the northwest passage and to redeem his shattered reputation I am fascinated by anything ...So, you ve had a bad day Maybe But consider yourself lucky that your boss wasn t Sir John Franklin, and that your day job wasn t as a sailor on Franklin s mid 19th century, multi year Arctic expedition Because no matter what, your day at work probably didn t involve getting stuck fast in the ice, disappearing from outside human contact, and dying agonizingly in the frozen wastes, numbed by cold, ravaged by hunger, perhaps brought low by botulism, forced, by inches, to contemplate the unthinka So, you ve had a bad day Maybe But consider yourself lucky that your boss wasn t Sir John Franklin, and that your day job wasn t as a sailor on Franklin s mid 19th century, multi year Arctic expedition Because no matter what, your day at work probably didn t involve getting stuck fast in the ice, disappearing from outside human contact, and dying agonizingly in the frozen wastes, numbed by cold, ravaged by hunger, perhaps brought low by botulism, forced, by i...In 1847 Sir John Franklin left England and his adoring wife Lady Jane to seek the fabled Northwest Passage He was 59 years old and it was his fourth journey to the Arctic He had survived starvation on his second journey This expedition was prepared with three years of food, included new fangled canned foods He had powerful, heated ships The explorer Ross promised to rescue Franklin if he did not come home.Nothing went as planned Extreme ice stranded the ships Their canned food was tainted In 1847 Sir John Franklin left England and his adoring wife Lady Jane to seek the fabled Northwest Passage He was 59 years old and it was his fourth journey to the Arctic He had survived starvation on his second journey This expedition was prepared with three years of food... No chain of islands on Earth isvicious than the Arctic Archipelago Like teeth lining colossal jaws, some ninety four large islands, and 36, 469 smaller ones, stretch across a territory about half the size of the contiguous United States They can bite down and swallow ships whole Even the earliest, most hopeful, searchers, who mapped large parts of the archipelago as they looked for Erebusand Terrorand their crews, knew it would take a miracle to find anyone in that gigantic maw.In his No chain of islands on Earth isvicious than t...The oceans always have some great unsolved mystery disappearances In the mid 1840s the Royal Navy bomb ketches, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror disappeared in the Arctic of Canada Paul Watson tells the story of their loss and discovery in his book Ice Ghosts The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition The two ships and every member of their crews 129 officers, seamen, and marines under the command of the Admiralty s third choice for the job, Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin were lost somewhere The oceans always have some great unsolved mystery disappearances In the mid 1840s the Royal Navy bomb ketches, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror disappeared in the Arctic of Canada Paul Watson tells the story of their loss and discovery in his book Ice Ghosts The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition The two ships and every member of their crews 129 officers, seamen, and marines under the command of the Admiralty s third choice for the job, Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin were lost somewhere in the Arctic The ships and all hands disappeared while searching for the several hundred miles of the central Northwest Passage, the shortest route between Europe and China The Passage s eastern and western ends had been discovered earlier.In 2008 Ottawa decided to fund a six year hunt for the ships Over the years many have searched unsuccessfully for the lost ships But with the melting ice and the glaciers shrinking, another hunt was begun In 2014 The ...A compelling read that nevertheless has a few issues This type of book, a popular narrative history, is always fraught with a number of pitfalls Watson plays fast and loose with the facts in the historical first half of the book As many historians do, he gets to pick and choose which facts to emphasize in order to make his readexciting and make the failurestragic A particular example is of the many crackpot psychic explorations of the expedition s fate, Watson focuses on the Weez A compelling read that nevertheless has a few issues This type of book, a popular narrative history, is always fraught ...The author has won a Pulitzer.I regret to say that I am less than 10% in and can report at least one sentence fragment, and multiple spliced sentences.The topic is fascinating but the writing is getting on my nerves My parents are English professors, and I feel the urge to pull out a red pen.I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review of this title So, the failed Franklin Expedition of 1845 has been a subject that I have been obsessed with ever since reading The Terror by Dan Simmons For those not familiar with the lost expedition, Sir John Franlin set out from England in the mid 19th century to find the elusive Northwest Passage The purpose of the expedition was to shorten the amount of time it would take to conduct trade between Europ I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review of this title So, the failed Franklin Expedition of 1845 has been a subject that I have been obsessed with ever since reading The Terror by Dan Simmons For those not familiar with the lost expedition, Sir John Franlin set out from England in the mid 19th century to find the ...Having both read Dan Simmon s book The Terror and watched the AMC show based on it, I wanted to know a bitof the history of the Franklin Expedition This was an excellent way to learn about the expedition, the search for survivors, and what was happening in the world at the time.Dan Simmon s novel, The Terror, was my introduction to the failed Franklin Expedition in 1845 a voyage of discovery to find that elusive Northwest Passage that would like Atlantic and Pacific oceans Since then, I ve read several books that relate to Arctic and Antarctic exploration, both fiction and nonfiction, and now that I think back, I wonder if Andrea Barrett s fabulous Voyage of the Narwhal touched on Franklin as well The snow and ice almost always win...

• English
• 06 November 2017
Paul Watson
• Paperback
• 416 pages
• 0393355861
• Paul Watson
• Ice Ghosts