Download or read book Fate of Franklin and His Discoveries written by Mac Clintock and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world -- a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy -- became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now -- and what few have suggested -- is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.
Download or read book Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? And did it determine the course of the American Revolution?
Download or read book Franklin s Fate written by Barry Deane Stewart and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Franklin was a famous British explorer of the 19th Century. His expedition to the Canadian High Arctic, involving two ships and 128 navy men, went missing in 1848. It took ten more years to discover their tragic fate, with many details still not known. The two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, disappeared under the Arctic ice. They were not discovered until 2014 and 2016 respectively. Against a background of political and public celebration of the ship’s discovery, an antiquarian book fair and auction takes place, focusing on the many interesting and valuable journals that were published about the search for the lost Franklin expedition. Authorities have determined that hundreds of valuable rare books worth millions of dollars have been stolen from many famous libraries and institutions. They suspect that some of those stolen books might appear at the Franklin book fair. A game of cat and mouse unfolds as they try to determine who stole the books and how to recover them. The trail leads them to the world of organized criminals and large-scale money laundering.
Download or read book Franklin s Fate written by John Roobol and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1845 North-West Passage expedition of Sir John Franklin in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with a full company of 129 officers and men, none of whom ever saw England again, was one of the most heroic and courageous, maritime expeditions in history. This enthralling book is the result of seven years of arduous research by retired geologist Dr. John Roobol, who weighs evidence gathered over more than 170 years, and offers a highly convincing interpretation of what really happened to the lost, heroic, expedition.
Download or read book The Career Last Voyage and Fate of Captain Sir John Franklin written by Sherard Osborn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1860 account of Sir John Franklin's life and of the search for him, by the naval officer Sherard Osborn.
Download or read book Fate of Sir John Franklin written by Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frozen in Time written by Owen Beattie and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845–48 has been shrouded in mystery for 165 years. Carrying the best equipment that the science and technology, Franklin and his men set out to “penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America.” The expedition’s two ships — HMS Erebus and HMS Terror — carrying 129 officers and men, disappeared without a trace. From 1846 to 1880 more than 20 major rescue parties were involved in the search for the missing men and ships. The disappearance of the expedition and absence of any substantial written accounts of the journey have left attempts at a reconstruction of events sketchy and inconclusive. In Frozen in Time, forensic anthropologist Owen Beattie and historian John Geiger tell the dramatic story of the excavation of three sailors from the Franklin Expeditions, buried for 138 years on the lonely headland of Beechey Island. This book contains the astonishing photographic record of the excavation, together with the maps and illustrations that accompany this riveting account of Franklin’s fatal adventure. The unfolding of Dr. Beattie’s unexpected findings is not only a significant document but also, in itself, a tale of high adventure.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions written by Captain M'Clintock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Download or read book In the Arctic Seas written by Francis Leopold Sir M'Clintock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the Arctic Seas' is a report where the author confirmed explorer John Rae's controversial report gathered from Inuit sources on the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, the ill-fated Royal Navy undertaking commanded by Sir John Franklin in 1845 attempting to be the first to traverse the Northwest Passage. The author is a person of note himself, for Sir Francis Leopold McClintock KCB FRS, an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, is well-known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Download or read book The North west Passage and the Fate of Sir John Franklin written by James Alex Browne and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on the Mysterious Fate of Sir John Franklin written by James Parsons (of North Shields.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fate of Sir John Franklin The Voyage of The Fox in the Arctic Seas Third Edition Revised and Enlarged With Preface by Sir R I Murchison written by Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions written by Francis Leopold McClintock and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew. After two years with no word, a £20,000 reward was offered to anyone who could find the expedition, leading to many rescue missions. One such attempt was made by Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819–1907), who in 1859 succeeded in discovering the only written record left by Franklin's expedition. “In the Arctic Seas” recounts McClintock incredible Arctic excision and his death-defying endeavours to uncover what really happened to Franklin and his ill-fated crew. An incredible account of survival against all odds in the unforgiving Arctic highly recommended for those with an interest in the famous Franklin expedition and Arctic exploration in general. Read & Co. History is republishing this classic memoir now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography by John Knox Laughton.
Download or read book Fate of Sir John Franklin written by Mac Clintok and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frozen in Time written by Owen Beattie and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable piece of forensic deduction.”—Margaret Atwood The internationally-bestselling account of the Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, and the thrilling scientific investigation that spurred the decades-long hunt for its recovery—now with a new afterword on the discovery of its lost ships: Erebus and Terror. “Chilling . . . will keep you up nights turning pages.”—The Chicago Tribune In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to “penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America.” And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn’t come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered Erebus, the lost ship. Frozen in Time is a riveting deep dive into one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time, and the team of brilliant scientists that unleashed its secrets from the ice.
Download or read book FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN written by Francis Leopold Sir M'Clintock, 1819-1 and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
