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Frozen in Time
By Owen Beattie & John Geiger &Publisher Description
Owen Beattie is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. He has contributed to many forensic investigations in Canada, as well as to human rights and humanitarian projects in Rwanda, Somalia, and Cyprus.
John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. His work has been translated into eight languages. He is currently the CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Wade Davis is an anthropologist, author, and explorer. He is the author of numerous books, including Into the Silence, Sacred Headwaters and The Wayfinders. He has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. His work has been translated into eight languages. He is currently the CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Wade Davis is an anthropologist, author, and explorer. He is the author of numerous books, including Into the Silence, Sacred Headwaters and The Wayfinders. He has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
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“Really good. Loss of a star for getting bogged down in scientific terms. I would love to look at the updated version!”
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“Polar exploration--in particular the Franklin Expedition--is one of my favorite topics, so I jumped right into this one without a close read of the copy. Turns out, the book is not so much about the Franklin Expedition itself as it is about the excavation of the only three preserved graves of the 129 ill-fated officers and crew of the Erebus and Terror. The three bodies, which were exhumed in the summers of 1984 and 1986, nearly 140 years after the disaster, were autopsied and analyzed in order to determine what factors caused or contributed to their deaths and, potentially, undermined the entire expedition.
The beginning of the book does give an overview of Franklin and his predecessors, set against the backdrop of the consuming quest to locate the Northwest Passage for the glory of Queen and country. It's a fairly surface-level recounting, however, and the writing style is informational in tone, so it can sometimes read a bit dry. I did find the excavation and exhumation portions of the story interesting, as this is something that hasn't been covered in other books I've read, which were more focused on the expedition than modern archaeological examinations of it. So for those, like me, who are intrigued by the story, this books provides an added layer of information. My actual rating would probably be 3.5 stars.
One final note: I picked the less gruesome cover image here on Goodreads, but other editions have the mummified face of one of Franklin's crew on the cover. It's worth Googling the Beechey Island excavation to see the pictures. It's incredible how well the men were preserved. Incredible and very sad. There's something especially poignant about the close-up shot of John Torrington's frozen hands, the fuzzy texture of his wool undershirt visible at the cuffs. It makes history and the tragedy of what happened to those 129 men come, quite literally, into sharp focus.”
About Owen Beattie
Owen Beattie is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. He has contributed to many forensic investigations in Canada, as well as to human rights and humanitarian projects in Rwanda, Somalia, and Cyprus.
John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. His work has been translated into eight languages. He is currently the CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Wade Davis is an anthropologist, author, and explorer. He is the author of numerous books, including Into the Silence, Sacred Headwaters and The Wayfinders. He has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. His work has been translated into eight languages. He is currently the CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Wade Davis is an anthropologist, author, and explorer. He is the author of numerous books, including Into the Silence, Sacred Headwaters and The Wayfinders. He has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
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