In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole journey ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

Extreme adventurer Mark Synnott is out with his third book, chronicling his attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage in ...

Into the Ice,” a travelogue, historical mystery and memoir, recounting a sail through the Northwest Passage, will appeal to ...