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szu's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Ice Ghosts covers the search for what happened to the Franklin Expedition in exquisite detail, and truly grabs the reader's attention as they are being transported through the hundreds of years of expeditions launched in an eddoet to understand the mystery of what happened to the Terror, Erebus, and their crews.
I think what sets Ice Ghosts truly apart is the effort it makes to highlight both Lady Jane Franklin's steadfast and unwavering tenacity to find out what happened to her husband, as well as the importance of the knowledge and expertise of the Inuit, whose stories of what happened to the Franklin Expedition, and where the ships and the graves of their men lay, were overlooked.
I think what sets Ice Ghosts truly apart is the effort it makes to highlight both Lady Jane Franklin's steadfast and unwavering tenacity to find out what happened to her husband, as well as the importance of the knowledge and expertise of the Inuit, whose stories of what happened to the Franklin Expedition, and where the ships and the graves of their men lay, were overlooked.
karingforbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Overall, well written. He would, not infrequently, have a sentence the meaning of which was undermined by the implication, as if he was blind to the implication, which was jarring. But he did a nice job tying together the expedition and the discovery of the wrecks with all the individuals involved in the story. He repeatedly made the point that the Inuit had known all along and said so, but because racism, were not heard. It’s a good book
ekarpinski's review against another edition
1.0
Do yourself a favor, read a different book on the Franklin expedition. This one skips virtually all of the modern forensic research in order to give heavy page time to all the psychics and spirits. The title is literal, the restless ghost of John Franklin is roaming the arctic.
Easily a third of the book is spent in confusing digressions on 20th century Canada's treatment of the Inuit, biographers of searchers, and underwater archeology, among others.
Easily a third of the book is spent in confusing digressions on 20th century Canada's treatment of the Inuit, biographers of searchers, and underwater archeology, among others.
lukasjay's review against another edition
2.0
Wanted to like this book, and did in places. But wished had I read the author was a de-populationist beforehand (depopulation basically translates as Institiutional genocide/sterilization) it would have seriously affected my desire to read this.
Anyway, it might have been good. But the author spoiled it with his climate change politics. Some decent summary and stitching together of the narrative of Franklin's expedition, and when we stay in this topic the book is decent, but I have to say, we do not seem to have a non-fiction book these days that discusses historical events, without having to drown us with boring ideologies and political messages.
Considering many of the corporations sponsoring the teams that found these boats have questionable records on the environment themselves, I found the constant reminders irritating and the author a complete and total hypocrite.
He bounds enthusiastically from one piece of establishment worship to another piece of climate change dogma with seemingly no conscious understanding of his deep and obvious hypocrisy. We are basically dealing with another dogmatic pseudo historian, who is more motivated in forcing his political will and imagination onto an already well covered historical event.
Anyway, it might have been good. But the author spoiled it with his climate change politics. Some decent summary and stitching together of the narrative of Franklin's expedition, and when we stay in this topic the book is decent, but I have to say, we do not seem to have a non-fiction book these days that discusses historical events, without having to drown us with boring ideologies and political messages.
Considering many of the corporations sponsoring the teams that found these boats have questionable records on the environment themselves, I found the constant reminders irritating and the author a complete and total hypocrite.
He bounds enthusiastically from one piece of establishment worship to another piece of climate change dogma with seemingly no conscious understanding of his deep and obvious hypocrisy. We are basically dealing with another dogmatic pseudo historian, who is more motivated in forcing his political will and imagination onto an already well covered historical event.