Just as importantly, Franklin’s widow, Lady Jane Franklin, visited BC in 1861 and again in 1870. At least two of these Royal Navy men went on to settle in British Columbia. This topic - the Franklin Expedition’s BC connections - has not yet been written up, but I will urge an assiduous researcher to start by combing through Captain John Walbran’s coastal history classic, British Columbia C oast Names (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1909, and reprinted many times since). Men from Franklin’s previous expeditions and voyages, and personnel from later expeditions sent in search of him, visited the Royal Navy’s new Pacific station at Esquimalt after it opened in 1848. Or had it? What possible connection exists between British Columbia and Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition of 1845-48? As someone who practically camped out in the BC Archives in the 1980s, I can answer that question. Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) is not a BC author, Erebus is not a BC ship, and the Franklin Expedition had nothing to do with British Columbia. A vigilant reader of The Ormsby Review might be startled to see Michael Palin’s Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time reviewed here, and I might appear to be on thin ice. Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada (Vintage Canada), 2019Įditor’s note. simply terrific writing by Michael Palin.? - Roy MacGregor, author of Original Highways- Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada 'Michael Palin is a cracking good companion on this journey of ambition, longing, triumph and tragedy.Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time Palin has given us a fascinating account of extraordinary courage? - Charlotte Gray, author of The Promise of Canada- People and Ideas that Shaped Our Country 'What more could a reader ask for? Fascinating mystery, chilling adventure, compelling characters. The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we?ve all been waiting for.? - Nicholas Crane 'One robust little tub of a boat, two death-defying voyages to the ends of the earth. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarctica?s Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller._ 'This is an incredible book. The ship was filled with fascinating people- the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the 'Great Southern Barrier? the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus's final, disastrous expedition and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist - when he wasn't shooting the local wildlife dead. I didn?t want it to end.? - Bill Bryson_ Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter - brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.
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