VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Recent Facebook discussions, along with a goodly percentage of my daily e-mail, center around which books about Sir John Franklin's ...

With the release on BluRay and DVD of Ralph Fiennes' film The Invisible Woman , based on the affair between Charles Dickens and Ell...

This coming Saturday, May 10th, I'll be joining my old Arctic friend and fellow-researcher Kenn Harper to give a talk on films of Arc...

It's probably the best-known symbol of the failure of the Franklin expedition -- the whaleboat, loaded with all manner of material th...

I've written before about the marvelous creations of graphic artist Ron Toelke -- his miniature can of Goldner's Ox-Cheek soup , ...

There's been plenty of speculation -- and disagreement -- over the possible role of internecine conflict among Inuit bands in the fat...

In the wake of the disappointing results of this year's Park's Canada search for traces of Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic e...

Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the intrepid American Arctic explorer, enjoyed tremendous fame in his day; he was celebrated in moving panoramas , ...

With the news that this year's Parks Canada archaeological work will include both water and land searches, and that the land search w...

As is well-known, HMSS "Erebus" and "Terror" were both outfitted with ex-railway engines connected to screw propellor...

The writer of the so-called " Peglar Papers " -- a cache of personal documents and letters found with the remains of o...