VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Robert Cundy (L) and Gordon Dean (R); courtesy of the Sunderland Echo One of the more active armchair Franklin enthusiasts of his day, ...

Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016 t's widely-known that the "Resolute Desk," currently being...

As a fact-checker, one of the most common things I've had to check in articles about the Franklin expedition are numbers. 128 men? Ye...

One could say that he was the first of the "modern" era of Franklin searchers, but Lachlan Taylor Burwash was at the same time ...

Image via Wikimedia Commons In my upcoming book Finding Franklin , I put it this way: "There’s every possibility that the next vit...

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...