VISIONS OF THE NORTH

The American artist  William Bradford  chartered annual excursions for photography and ice-painting nearly every year from 1861 to 1867. ...

When little Weesy Coppin's ghost was called upon by Anne and her surviving siblings to show the fate of Sir John Franklin, the vision...

I have posted before on the " Londonderry Vision " and Captain Coppin, but new interest in the subject -- along with some thoug...

The recent conference, held under the auspices of TIGHAR , on new evidence as to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, was packed with fas...

The career of Sir John Franklin inspired numerous poems both during and after his lifetime, ranging from the romantic (Swinburne's ...

The Franklin search ship HMS Breadalbane was caught or "nipped" by pack-ice and sank on Sunday 21 August, 1853; according t...

IN the spirit of Lady Franklin's Appeal to Lord Palmerston, I've just done something I've never tried before -- launch a pet...

A few years ago -- in May of 2008, to be precise -- I was in Philadelphia along with many Arctic historians and writers for the "Nor...

Thinking about all the mysteries which surround the fate of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, it's hard not to reflect on the int...

The mystery surrounding my ancestor William Brunt has deepened -- or, perhaps I should say doubled -- for another William Brunt, also a conv...

As readers of this blog may well imagine, it didn't take me long to plunge into further research on my ancestor, William Henry Brunt, a...