Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition

In association with Royal Museums Greenwich and the Canadian Museum of History, this book will accompany a summer 2017 exhibition of the same name at the National Maritime Museum, London. Following London, the exhibition will move to Canada for touring in 2018.Erebus was one of the two ships commanded by Sir John Franklin which set out to find the North-West Passage in 1845 in one of the biggest British expeditions to the Arctic regions. With no word from the 128-strong crew after three years, the Admiralty launched a search to discover their fate. Many expeditions followed, with many theories of the fate of Franklin's entire crew, including combination of lead poisoning and scurvy leading to madness and potentially cannibalism. In September 2014 an investigative team from Parks Canada, an agency of the Government of Canada, discovered the sunken wreck of Erebus after a lengthy search. Richly illustrated, the book will add to the interpretation of the eventual discovery by expanding the narrative and people stories of the doomed Erebus and Terror expedition.