Posts Tagged ‘john franklin’
Arctic Explorer John Rae nears Westminster Abbey
A recent flurry of newspaper reports made it official. They appeared in The Scotsman, The Orcadian, The Glasgow Sunday Herald, and The Times (Scottish edition). Arctic explorer John Rae is soon to be recognized in Westminster Abbey. David Ross, Highland Correspondent for the Herald, produced a quote from the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverand…
Read MoreWould you believe another discovery of Franklin relics?
At first I was sceptical. But the more I looked at it, the more interested I became. A British adventurer, a TV-show-host named Bear Grylls, reports happening upon a possible Franklin site, complete with graves, on a tiny island in Wellington Strait, northeast of King William Island. That story turned up in the U.K. in…
Read MoreYo, Peter C. Newman . . .
Yo, Peter, the cheque is in the mail. But seriously, thanks for the hit in today’s Globe and Mail. And for those who missed it, voila: “For a change of pace and mood, I’ve been devouring Ken McGoogan’s magnificent Race to the Polar Sea, published last year and arguably the most evocative of his four…
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