Review: Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin�s Lost Polar Expedition By Scott Cookman. John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 244 pp. In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out to lead England�s greatest effort to find the Northwest Passage. His expedition included two well-equipped ships, several years� worth of provisions, and 128 officers and men. All vanished in the Arctic. What happened? The lack of diaries, log books, and other original source material has made it impossible to know, but people have been...