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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. Brand new (old) stock, pristine; comes in mylar wrapper over dust jacket (see last two photos). Cunningly, the inside of the dust jacket contains a list of other Konemann book titles. Captain McClintock in 1857 led the last of the many expeditions that went looking for Sir John Franklin and his crew--over-confident, under-trained Englishmen who never returned from their 1847 search for the Northwest Passage. He found enough artifacts, bones, and reports by natives to confirm the death by starvation of Franklin's entire company. Franklin's uniquely British form of polar heroism (i.e. hubris combined with patriotism and incompetence) touched the hearts of the public as no explorer would do until Robert Falcon Scott. Be prepared for the mid-19th century prose, which does not move along at the rapid clip we have come to expect 150 years later. Remember, this is an opportunity to see a slice of the 19th century from the 19th century's own point of view. And an interesting slice it is.
