The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths.
Although the expedition did not run out of food, there is clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried two hundred message cylinders with them, yet failed to leave records. Stranger still, an earlier explorer, Thomas Simpson, was reputedly murdered for the "secret of the Northwest Passage." What was this "secret"?
The Franklin Conspiracy is an exhaustively researched, compellingly reasoned answer to that question. The result is a shocking saga of conspiracy, cover-up, and unbelievable secrets.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-320)
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 917.19/5041/092
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0888822340 9781770700307
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- G660
- LCCN Item number
- L28 2001eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (320 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00520932 (OCoLC)752589791 (CaOOCEL)404526
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Table of Contents
- Jeffrey Blair Latta 3
- Table of Contents 7
- Foreword 9
- Can Such Things Be 9
- Prologue 21
- The Vanishing Ships 21
- Part I 25
- The Secret 25
- Chapter One 26
- Prelude to Disaster 26
- Chapter Two 36
- Victory Point Revisited 36
- Chapter Three 42
- The Vanishes 42
- Chapter Four 49
- Never To Return 49
- Chapter Five 53
- A Second 1824 53
- Chapter Six 57
- The Ghost and Lady Franklin 57
- Part II 63
- By Unworthy Motives 63
- Chapter Seven 64
- The Deception of James Ross Clark 64
- Chapter Eight 76
- The Turning of Captain Forsyth 76
- Chapter Nine 87
- The Deception of John Ross 87
- Chapter Ten 93
- The Dead of Beechey Island 93
- Chapter Eleven 105
- The Cashmere Gloves 105
- Chapter Twelve 108
- Penny Versus Austin 108
- Chapter Thirteen 115
- The Canadian and the French Lieutenant 115
- Chapter Fourteen 123
- Captain Collinson and the 123
- Chapter Fifteen 130
- A Study in Contrasts 130
- Chapter Sixteen 136
- How to Lose a Flotilla 136
- Chapter Seventeen 142
- The Ghost Ship 142
- Part III 147
- Into the Darkness 147
- Chapter Eighteen 148
- John Rae 148
- Chapter Nineteen 156
- Cannibalism and Other Relics of the Lost 156
- Chapter twenty 163
- Lady Franklins Decision 163
- Chapter Twenty-One 168
- The Voyage of the 168
- Chapter Twenty-Two 178
- The Other Shoe Drops 178
- Chapter Twenty-Three 186
- Whodunit 186
- Chapter Twenty-four 195
- Two Bodies and a Note 195
- Chapter Twenty-Five 204
- A Trail of Bones 204
- Chapter Twenty-Six 208
- The Victory Point Record Explained 208
- Chapter Twenty-Seven 216
- The Final March 216
- Chapter Twenty-Eight 223
- The Second Winter at Beechey Island 223
- Chapter Twenty-Nine 227
- The Passage from Beechey Island 227
- Part IV 233
- In Whose Land Ye Dwell 233
- Chapter Thirty 234
- Mock Suns and Other Northern Lights 234
- Chapter Thirty-One 243
- Inuit Tales and the Angikuni Connection 243
- Chapter Thirty-Two 258
- The Tunnit 258
- Chapter Thirty-Three 269
- The Last Resource 269
- Chapter Thirty-Four 275
- Of a Sickness 275
- Chapter Thirty-Five 280
- The Shaman Light 280
- Chapter Thirty-Six 286
- Rehearsal for Murder 286
- Epilogue 295
- Proof 295
- Expeditions 301
- Source Notes 307
- Bibliography 319
