Relics of the Franklin Expedition

Garth Walpole was born in 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania. He earned a degree in history and archaeology at the University of Bangor in Wales, where his fascination with the lost Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin began. He died April 7, 2015, not long after completing this book. Russell Potter lives in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Usedviii

Editor’s Preface

Original Introduction

1. The Material Biography of Relics: A Physical and Spiritual Relationship

2. The Continued Search for Relics, 1851–1854

3. Examining the Relics

4. The Material and Social Value of the Relics

5. The Relics: Their Past, Present and Future

Conclusion

Appendices:

deleteA: Locations of Relics

deleteB: Relics at the National Maritime Museum

deleteC: Relics with Ownership Ascribed

deleteD: Relics Recorded and Left by McClintock, 1859

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index227