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Ice Ghosts

The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

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Ice Ghosts

By: Paul Watson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
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Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014.

Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones - until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.

©2017 Paul Watson (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Arctic & Antarctica Expeditions & Discoveries World Polar Region Discovery
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I bloody loved this book. It’s so evocative and fascinating. The performance is en point, and the story itself is complex, nuanced and a rollicking good tale. I’m now obsessed with watching every documentary I can find about the Franklin Expedition. Enjoy!

Brilliant!

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a good story and nothing I really knew about so i was going in blind but thoroughly enjoyed it.

a informative story this about the search

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