VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Following up on an earlier post , since the area chosen for this year's summer search is where the first, crushed ship of Franklin's...

With the news that the private search for Franklin's ships will be the only one this summer, the practical question of where to look fo...

According to the CBC , this summer's search for Sir John Franklin's ships has been officially called off. Apparently, despite the ...

I just arrived back late last night from my lecture on Sir Edwin Landseer's "Man Proposes, God Disposes," currently on displa...

It's remarkable how little it turns out we sometimes know about things we thought we knew well. So, while the question over whether or n...

One of the iconic images of the Arctic Sublime, it was painted by an artist who had never travelled to the north, and whose best-known pain...

In my last posting, I gave some general background on the Daguerreotypes made of Franklin and his officers just before their sailing in May ...

Among the most well-known images of the Franklin expedition are the daguerreotypes made of him and his senior officers just prior to their s...

I just heard this morning from Jonathan Betts, who was most interested to learn of our discussion here, and offered some considerable addit...

Over the years I've written about and researched the Franklin expedition, among the toughest things to track down have been maps.  Hist...

It's a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes, who famously remarked that, once one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains -- no mat...