Frozen in Time The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

From their ice-shrouded graves, three 19th century seamen reveal the chilling fate of a doomed Arctic expedition. The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic Expedition of 1845-48 has been shrouded in mystery for nearly 140 years. The disappearance of Franklin's lavishly equipped ships - JMS Terror and HMS Erebus - together with the absence of any written accounts of the journey, save one tragic note found by a nineteenth-century search expedition, had left attempts at a reconstruction of events sketchy and inconclusive. Then, on June 29, 1981, part of a bleached human skull was found by the team working with anthropologist Dr. Owen Beattie. This led - through three further scientific expeditions over the next five years - to the quite extraordinary revelations of this book.