By William Barr
From Baird Maritime:
Another excellent example of Canadian Arctic history from The University of Alberta Press. The author, in this case, has amassed an amazing collection of facts.
These have been analysed in exceptional detail and presented in a fascinating and very readable form. Fortuitously, his words have been brilliantly enhanced by a number of very high quality paintings produced by the assistant surgeon on the unfortunate voyage described.
The 'Enterprise' voyage was yet another in search of the ill-fated Franklin expedition through the North-West Passage. Reminiscent of the Bligh 'Bounty' voyage of seventy years previous. The subsequent career of Captain Richard Collinson was remarkably similar to Bligh's.
A strange but fascinating story.
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