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The enthralling and frequently harrowing record of the adventurers who sought out the Northwest Passage, the ultimate goal of 19th-century United kingdom exploration. Following the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it after themselves to complete something that they had been wanting to do since the 16th century: find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient with a sea route over northern Canada. For the next 35 years, the United kingdom Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of stations, sounds, and icy seas with two boats and 128 officials and men. In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt instructs the whole tale of the seek out the Northwest Passage, from its origins early in age exploration through its development into a United kingdom nationwide obsession to the final sordid, horrendous descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is the target of the e book but it protects all the major expeditions and lots of fascinating people, including Franklin's remarkable wife, Female Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a abundant and engaging work of narrative record that captures the glory and the folly of the ultimately tragic enterprise.
