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Hummahuk knew what many have long forgotten: A story well told is eternal.

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated...

If you must see to know, you will miss many things that are real.

This was a fascinating book! The book is roughly broken into three parts. The first part focuses on the actual Franklin Expedition, the second was about Lady Franklin‘s efforts to find the Expedition, and the final part is about the modern efforts to find the ships. I really enjoyed learning about shipfinding technologies. Very good book!

Biscuit and Gravy like a hecking good cuddle.
#dogsoflitsy

Another book about efforts to find the crewmen of the lost Franklin Expedition. First half covers past searches conducted from about 1846 onward. This was only mildly interesting. The second half is about modern day searches and the discovery of both Royal Navy ships Terror and Erebus underwater. Not as interesting as Michael Palin‘s book about Erebus, I was happy to finish reading Ice Ghosts. Only 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Yikes 😬 Another polar exploration gone wrong, with plenty of #winterkills ensuing. From my tbr ❄️
#winterwonderland

📚 I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and tagged
👨 Kazuo Ishiguro
🎬 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (I have used this answer for something else before? 😁)
🍧 Ice cream

#manicmonday #letteri @JoScho

@RachelO 💙what a beautiful package I opened this morning! I have been wanting to read both books and there is something about nonfiction that makes me so happy! The bookmarks are both beautiful - did you make the one? I am going to love to use those pencils and I will use the fan on my porch this summer. I have never seen anything like it. And to top it off - a postcard from Bath. ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much. And thank you @inwhichHeikereadsharder

The only reason I rate this as so-so is that although I have an interest in artic exploration and the search for shipwrecks it does not run to the exhaustive level of detail in this book. Otherwise, this is about the failed 1847 Franklin expedition (1st 1/3 or 1/2 is the mounting and what we know of the expedition) the many searches over 160 years and ultimately the last 20% about finding the 2 ships in 2014,Franklin has not been found. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

My current commute audiobook for #NonfictionNovember all about a failed 1847 Arctic Expedition.

New #bookreview at www.theirregularreaderblog.wordpress.com! Ice Ghosts by Paul Watson is an incredible, multifaceted story about the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition!

For over 100 years family members, historians, politicians, sailors, and underwater archeologists have tried to discover what happened to the Franklin Arctic Expedition. Watson does a good job tying together many threads of the various searches, though given the ending I wish he'd waited a few years to publish. The buried lede of the tale is the impact global warming is having on the Arctic and it's those details that have stayed with me.

This just in, Charles Dickens was super racist.

TIL portmanteau is also the word for a trunk, like the kind sea captains took to explore the Arctic.

"Make an 1824 out of it" is my new favorite phrase for mucking something up.

Its a lovely spring morning here and thankfully the ice floes of the arctic seem very far away

This was the kind of work week that needed retail therapy!

#maps #maplove I Find stories of the Franklin Expedition utterly engrossing.

Please don't let this be the story of how the Leafs choked. Thank you. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

#Bookmail #ARC

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