FROZEN IN TIME (FRANKLIN EXPEDITION)

An incredible true story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to the Arctic (1845-48) which succumbed to the horrors of starvation, scurvy, and cannibalism. It makes the case that this was due to the crews' overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods, which not only exposed the seamen to lead, an insidious poison, but also left them vulnerable to scurvy, the ancient scourge of seafarers which had been thought to have been largely cured in the early years of the nineteenth century. Fully revised, Frozen in Time updates the research outlined in the original edition and includes a new introduction written by Margaret Atwood, who has long been fascinated by the role of the Franklin Expedition in Canada's literary conscience, and who made a pilgrimage to the site of the Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island.