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Palin, Michael.
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Erebus (Ship) -- History -- 19th century.
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- History -- 19th century.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
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Palin, Michael.
Erebus (Ship) -- History -- 19th century.
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- History -- 19th century.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
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Erebus
: the
story
of a
ship
/ Michael Palin.
by
Palin, Michael.
Random House Canada, 2018.
Call #:
910.916327 P162e
Subjects
Erebus
(
Ship
) -- History -- 19th century.
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- History -- 19th century.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780735274273 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Erebus
: one
ship
, two epic voyages, and the greatest naval mystery of all time
Description:
xiv, 334 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS
Erebus
to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the
ship
itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The
story
of a
ship
begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS
Erebus
, and another bomb
ship
, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839,
Erebus
was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic,
Erebus
and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS
Erebus
had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration
ship
. Palin looks at the
Erebus
story
through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of
Erebus
herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the
story
has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."--From publisher.
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