I Am Canada: Graves of Ice

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781443128964

<b>A dramatic Arctic adventure set during Sir John Franklin's doomed search for the Northwest Passage</b><p>George Chambers is a fourteen-year-old aboard the HMS <i>Erebus</i>, one of two ships under the command of Sir John Franklin on his quest to discover the Northwest Passage. But when the <i>Erebus</i> and <i>Terror</i> are trapped in crushing ice, 129 men of the crew die from cold, scurvy, and starvation.<p>Only two remain alive when George begins to recount his story: him and Commander James Fitzjames. As his strength dwindles and starvation weakens him, George recalls the events that led him to Canada's desolate North, and the expedition's failure — including gravediggers, a close call with a polar bear, standing up against sailors threatening mutiny, and his own impending death.<p>George does not know whether the story he tells will be all that survives of Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition.