MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS, THE
- 作者
- 出版社 Random House US
- 出版时间 2011年3月 第1版
- ISBN 9780307276568
- 定价 146.00
内容简介
TheenthrallingandoftenharrowinghistoryoftheadventurerswhosearchedfortheNorthwestPassage,theholygrailofnineteenth-centuryBritishexploration.AfterthetriumphantendoftheNapoleonicWarsin1815,theBritishtookituponthemselvestocompletesomethingtheyhadbeentryingtodosincethesixteenthcentury:findthefabledNorthwestPassage,ashortcuttotheOrientviaasearouteovernorthernCanada.Forthenextthirty-fiveyearstheBritishAdmiraltysentoutexpeditionafterexpeditiontoprobetheice-boundwatersoftheCanadianArcticinsearchofaroute,andthen,after1845,tofindSirJohnFranklin,theRoyalNavyherowholedthelastoftheseAdmiraltyexpeditionsandvanishedintothemazeofchannels,sounds,andicyseaswithtwoshipsand128officersandmen.InTheManWhoAteHisBoots,AnthonyBrandttellsthewholestoryofthesearchfortheNorthwestPassage,fromitsbeginningsearlyintheageofexplorationthroughitsdevelopmentintoaBritishnationalobsessiontothefinalsordid,terribledescentintoscurvy,starvation,andcannibalism.SirJohnFranklinisthefocusofthebookbutitcoversallthemajorexpeditionsandanumberoffascinatingcharacters,includingFranklin’sextraordinarywife,LadyJane,invividdetail.TheManWhoAteHisBootsisarichandengagingworkofnarrativehistorythatcapturesthegloryandthefollyofthisultimatelytragicenterprise.FromtheHardcoveredition.
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