Download Captain John Franklin's Lost Expedition: The History of the British Explorer's Arctic Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage AudioBook Free
"The sad report takes us back to the June of 1845. Both discovery boats, the Erebus and Terror, are in sea, with the transport containing their items in attendance on them. Enough time is noon; the area on the sea is close to the island of Rona, 70 or 80 kilometers from Stromness; and the two steamers, Rattler and Blazer, are taking leave - a final, long leave - of the Arctic voyagers." - The Living Get older, 1859 Most whoever has received a basic education in world record knows the storyplot of how "in 1492, Columbus sailed the sea blue." Most also know that Christopher Columbus made first contact with the Americas while searching for a drinking water path to Asia. However, much fewer people remember that the search for such a way continued for centuries after Columbus' fatality. After the breakthrough of the Americas, several European countries were interested in finding the way, and countries from France to Spain delivered explorers searching for the secret way. While these voyages didn't reveal the hoped for route, they have bring about large parts of both North and SOUTH USA being mapped, and as more of the new land mass was determined, the guidelines of the search for such a way were narrowed. By the 18th hundred years, explorers began to seek such a path to the north, looking for the renowned Northwest Passage.
