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Beattie Owen - Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

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Автор: Beattie Owen
Название: Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Жанр: История
Издательский дом: Bloomsbury Publishing
Год издания: 2012
Аннотация: The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable “debility” aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the Arctic than did Franklin during his first. Both expeditions were forced to retreat because of the rapacious illness that stalked their ships. makes the case that this illness (starting with the Back expedition) was due to the crews’ overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods. This not only exposed the seamen to lead, an insidious poison—as has been demonstrated ...
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