The great Scot of the Arctic

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

ONE rainy autumn night in Cambridge, with a floor-lamp at my elbow and a mug of coffee in my hand, I sat reading a particularly cogent description of how Sir John Franklin had earned the right to be recognised as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage. The author observed that the last survivors of Franklin's expedition had completed the passage only during a final doomed march from their ice- locked ships. He quoted Sir John Richardson: "They forged the last link with their lives."

Even as I admired that last line for its poetry, I recognised that it spoke falsely. During the past couple ...

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