Fergus Fleming wrote a brilliant book about the series of 19th century UK expeditions to try and find the North West Passage mentioned in this article:
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
NB After I read this book I found that one of the men who died on the Franklin Expedition is buried close to where I live in Edinburgh, here is a close-up of his gravestone in Dean Cemetery:
Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barrows-Boys-Fergus-Fleming/dp/18620...
NB After I read this book I found that one of the men who died on the Franklin Expedition is buried close to where I live in Edinburgh, here is a close-up of his gravestone in Dean Cemetery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_on_the_gravestone_o...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Cemetery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition