![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrated with maps, paintings and engravings, this is a wonderfully evocative and epic account, written by a master explorer and storyteller. To help tell the story, he has travelled to various locations across the world – Tasmania, the Falklands, the Canadian Arctic – to search for local information, and to experience at first hand the terrain and the conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her crew. And he vividly recounts the experiences of the men who first stepped ashore on Antarctica’s Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic wastes as rescue missions desperately tried to reach them. Erebus: The Story of a Ship is a biography of the voyage that was mentioned in Conrads book, Heart of Darkness. He explores the intertwined careers of the men who shared its journeys: the dashing James Clark Ross who charted much of the ‘Great Southern Barrier’ and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there and the troubled John Franklin, who at the age of sixty and after a chequered career, commanded the ship on its final, disastrous expedition. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. Now Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter – brings this extraordinary ship back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. Title: Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Paperback) Publisher: Cornerstone, United Kingdom Publication Date: 2019 Binding: Paperback Condition: New About this title Synopsis: HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. They were trying to find a way through the Northwest Passage. It is a story that spans many years, crews, voyages and countries and while it is often an entertaining ride it does often feel like a long one. Launched in 1826, it vanished with her sister ship, The Terror, in 1846. Erebus feels like a very comprehensive story, following the historic ship on its journey from its creation right the way through to its final resting place. In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. Erebus: The Story of a Ship is a biography of the voyage that was mentioned in Conrads book, Heart of Darkness. ![]() Random House presents the audiobook edition of Erebus, written and read by Michael Palin. ![]()
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