Jane Franklin's ObsessionA series of accessible, fast-paced non-fiction narratives aimed at pre-teen and young teenage readersNothing obsessed Victorian era explorers more than the idea of a seaway from the Atlandc to the Pacific -- the North West Passage. Thousands searched for it in the icy maze of Canada's Arctic islands -- their hopes and dreams so often crushed by the brutal cold of the Arctic. |
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abandoned Admiralty Arctic coast Arctic exploration Arctic hero Baffin Bay BAFFIN ISLAND BANKS ISLAND Barrow Strait BAY BAFFIN ISLAND Beechey Island Belcher Bellot BOOTHIA PENINSULA British Cape Walker Captain continent Coppermine River crew dead death DEVON ISLAND died discovered eastern Arctic Erebus expedition farther fate Fish River Franklin search Frobisher gone Greenland honour husband ice stream Inuit ISLAND ISLAND James Ross Jane Franklin JANE FRANKLIN'S OBSESSION John Franklin Kennedy King William Island knew Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound Land letter lost ships M'Clintock McClure miles mystery natives Navy never North America North West Passage Ocean overland Pacific party Peel Sound Penny Pierre Berton Prince of Wales Prince Regent Inlet pushed reached relics route sailing scurvy seamen search for Franklin shore Slave Lake sledge SOMERSET ISLAND spring tion vessels Victory Point voyage Wales Island Wellington Channel whalers winter