The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt

The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage

Anthony Brandt

441 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, star...

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