Resolute
John Franklin’s Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
$31.45
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2025
Summary
Few know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light.
After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, 39 rescue missions were launched, including one by the Resolute, the Royal Navy’s finest vessel. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned. A year later, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781454960218 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1454960213 |
| Author: | Martin Sandler, Martin Sandler, W. |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 152mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Martin Sandler
Martin Sandler has received many honors, including winning the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for 1919: The Year That Changed America; two Pulitzer Prize nominations; a Boston Horn Book Award for The Story of American Photography; and seven Emmys. His Library of Congress American History series has been a national bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, and he is one of the few historians to have published with the Library of Congress. Sandler was creator and cowriter for the acclaimed twelve-part This Was America tv series. He has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts and Smith College. Sandler lives in Cotuit, MA.
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