Sent north in 1857 in Lady Franklin’s yacht the Fox, Captain M’Clintock and his small crew spent two Arctic winters searching for traces of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition. His journal, dedicated to Lady Franklin, records the long besetment in the ice, the sledge journeys across King William Island, the Inuit testimony and the relics and written record that at last told what had happened.
One of the classic narratives of polar exploration, and the book that solved a national mystery. Download the free EPUB.