Book Information
- Imprint: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Publication Date: 27 February 2015
- Copyright Year: 2015
- ISBN: 9781459408425
- Edition: 2
- Page Count: 168
- Dimensions: 5" x 7.75"
- Interest ages: 8-14
- Reading level: Grade 2
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Mystery in the Frozen Lands
by Martyn Godfrey
introduction by Ken McGoogan
It's 1857, and teenager Peter Griffin joins a sea mission to solve a world-famous mystery: what really happened to arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Franklin and his crew of 128 men had sailed from England twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest Passage, a sea route through the Arctic between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Mysteriously, the entire Franklin expedition disappeared without a trace.
Based on true events and real people, Peter's fictional first-person account brings this Arctic adventure to new life. His journal details the long, dark days cooped up on board the ship, the ever-present dangers lurking in the forbidding, icy landscape, and the sadness that he and his shipmates experience as they come closer to realizing the ultimate end of Franklin and his men.
In his introduction, Ken McGoogan provides readers with background on the dramatic 2014 discovery of the wreck of Franklin's HMS Erebus and connects these events to the story of the 1857 expedition.
[Fry reading level - 2.7
About the Authors
KEN MCGOOGAN is the internationally published, award-winning author of eleven books and is well known for his biographical narratives centred on Arctic exploration. His books have won numerous literary awards, including the Writers' Trust of Canada Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, and the Pierre Berton Award for Popular History.
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