| ID: | 20507 |
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| Entry Text: | Ross, William Gillies. "The Admiralty and the Franklin Search." Polar Record, 40 (October 2004): 290-300. Sir John Franklin; most important: Francis Beaufort; use of surplus ships & men after long wars; numerous expeditions; assessment: "grandiose yet hugely ineffective. . . . most extensive, expensive, perverse, ill-stared and abundantly written about manhunt in history." |