VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Few men in northern service were as rugged and hardy as Lorenz Alexander Learmonth. Like Dr John Rae before him, he was an Orkneyman, and...

It may come as a surprise to many to learn that a descendent of James Fenimore Cooper -- his great-grandson Paul Fenimore Cooper -- made ...

It was abandoned in the Arctic, buried in the snow and ice not far from the place that Charles Francis Hall had dubbed "Thank God Ha...

W. Parker Snow, wearing his Arctic medal Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction -- an observation that has a special resonance in th...

The big news out of the north this week is that there's a dispute over the disposition of the relics so far -- and yet to be -- retri...

It may well have been the most ambitious single Franklin search of all time, and -- although its results were modest -- we now know it ca...

Many readers have noticed my hiatus here at Visions of the North , with only one new post since October of last year. The reason for th...

Sometimes it happens that the Internet, derided by some as a great time-waster, enables the sort of serendipity that would never otherwis...

Appearing, as fate would have it, just a few weeks before McClintock's news of the fate of Franklin reached England, " The Last ...

Having enjoyed the sometimes fanciful game of imagining how Arctic explorers might look on banknotes, it occurred to me that perhaps, in ...

In researching the history of Sir John Franklin's last expedition and its aftermath, there have from time to time been a number of su...