Ice GhostsErebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones¿until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.
Note
Downloadable audio file.
System Details
Requires Axis 360 app.
Performer
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.
Summary
A journalist and member of the expedition that discovered the wreck of HMS Erebus in 2014 describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845.