Franklin's Passage

by David Solway

Based upon the various conflicting accounts of John Franklin's calamitous attempt to complete and map the Northwest Passage, Franklin's Passage takes as its starting point a series of rhetorical questions posed by Henry David Thoreau in Walden: Is not our own interior white on the chart? Is it a North-West passage around this continent, that we would find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost? David...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773526838
• ISBN13: 9780773526839
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.5"