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　　The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers

who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of

nineteenth-century British exploration.

After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the

British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been

trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest

Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over northern

Canada. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent

out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of

the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to

find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of

these Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of channels,

sounds, and icy seas with two ships and 128 officers and men.

In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the whole

story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings

early in the age of exploration through its development into a

British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent

into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is the

focus of the book but it covers all the major expeditions and a

number of fascinating characters, including Franklin’s

extraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate His

Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history that

captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic

enterprise.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics series

published by National Geographic Society Press, and the books

editor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Formerly the book

critic at Men’s Journal, Brandt has written for The Atlantic, GQ,

Esquire, and many other magazines, and is the author of two

previous books. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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