Frozen in Time Quotes

“Evidence not of imperial glory, but of complete cultural failure and betrayal by men who insisted on importing their environment with them, rather than adapting to a new one in which they found themselves struggling to survive.”
― Owen Beattie, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

“Damkjar”
― Owen Beattie, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

“lead poisoning has a mean way of penalizing the extremity most used in muscular effort.”
― Owen Beattie, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

“The nature of the canning process of the day, which required that tins be nearly immersed in boiling water or saltwater, destroyed any ascorbic acid they may have contained, so that their tinned meats, vegetables, soups and even fruits were virtually useless as antiscorbutics.”
― Owen Beattie, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

“Only in 1795 did the Royal Navy heed decades of advice and begin enforcing the consumption of lime juice on its ships (giving rise to the term “limey”).”
― Owen Beattie, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition