Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin
Author(s):
Beardsley, Martyn
Copyright: 2002, US
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xiv, 272, 20 bw photos, map, appendices, red cloth
Condition: dj fine, cloth fine
The first full biography written in twenty years about the British adventurer who disappeared with his men in the Arctic in 1845. Beardsley examines Franklin’s incident-filled and sometime contentious career from his early days, when he fought at the battle of Trafalgar, to his last expedition to seek the fabled Northwest Passage when he vanished along with his men in controversial and mysterious circumstances.