Sentence examples for lost expedition from inspiring English sources

The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett Barrett's novel takes John Franklin's famous lost expedition as its starting point.

In memory of the lost expedition, one of Canada's Northwest Territories subdivisions was known as the District of Franklin.

Franklin's lost expedition has been the subject of many artistic works, including songs, verse, short stories, and novels, as well as television documentaries.

I knew a little bit more about the lost expedition, but as I read more about it, I realized that these two journeys were very interesting dramatically.

2013's novel The White Passage rounds out the list with a vaguely science-fiction take on the concepts of Time-travel and the consequences of an alternate fate of the lost expedition.

Rush is vehemently against the idea of exploring the other addresses, believing that the ship locked them out for a reason, and several failed attempts to contact the two lost expedition members seem to support his concerns.

Searchers for the lost Franklin expedition of 1845 48 explored and mapped other parts of the eastern Arctic in the following decade.

Returning to London, he was appointed second in command to Sir John Richardson on their overland search (1848 49) between the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.

Although he'd once longed to search the Arctic for the lost Franklin expedition, and thereby to "stand in the white bowl of heaven," now he hides in his library, drawing maps and bitterly reading the accounts of other explorers.

However, early in 1850 he learned that a squadron of four ships was being assembled to undertake a new search for the lost Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin.

The release of findings from the 1984 expedition and the photo of Torrington, a 138-year-old corpse well preserved by permafrost in the tundra, led to wide media coverage and renewed interest in the lost Franklin expedition.