Direct Beschikbaar Journey to the Polar Sea – John Franklin

— Presents a new edition of Franklin’s classic first-person account of his tragic 1819-22 Arctic expedition, illustrated with more than thirty photographs and drawings
John Franklin’s three-year sojourn in the wilderness succeeded in mapping part of the Arctic coast but ended in disaster. As supplies ran out, starvation and scurvy set in. More than half of the team members died as they huddled in winter quarters with lichens scraped off rocks, bones, scraps of hide, and their own boots as their only food. O…