Horatio Clare

Heated debate over Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition

Opposing the experts, Ernest Coleman sets off solo to discover what really happened to the crew searching for the North-West Passage

The Erebus and the Terror search for the North-West Passage (From The Polar World by G. Hartwig, 1874) 
issue 18 April 2020

How refreshing in a time of general sensitivity to find a book intended to infuriate and debunk. Welcome to the desolate Canadian Arctic, to the mystery of the Franklin expedition, which disappeared in 1845 seeking the North-West Passage, and to a world of disagreement about what happened to it.


Ernest Coleman’s story of his search for clues to Franklin’s fate is delightfully prejudiced and pugnacious.

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