Deadly Winter

by Martyn Beardsley

Deadly The Life of Sir John Franklin

Genres: Biography

272 pages, Hardcover

First published May 9, 2002

About the author

Martyn Beardsley has lived in Nottingham all his life. A civil servant for many years, he is now concentrating on his writing career. As well as being a children's author, one of his great passions is history. In 2002 he published a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer. A committed Buddhist, he is interested in reading, sport, keep-fit and yoga. Martyn Beardsley is married with one daughter.

Reviews

[William Battersby · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good account of the life of Sir John Franklin let down only by the author's insistence in his summary at the end of the book that, despite much evidence, there could not have been cannibalism among the last survivors of the Expedition in their final desperation.

[S. L. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first biography I have read on Sir John Franklin. I'm very impressed;thisis a detailed statement of the facts and the influences driving Franklin, not a cheap attempt to make money out of a mystery