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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In 1845 British naval captain Sir John Franklin sailed into the Canadian Arctic with two ships and 128 men, and disappeared. His ill-fated expedition was swiftly mythologised and co-opted into a Victorian narrative of self-sacrifice, heroism and duty. In puncturing these myths, Professor Andrew Lambert, author of an acclaimed new history of Franklin's polar navigation, explains why history is not a fixed record, but a constantly evolving interaction between different ages, and different opinions.
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