12 Best nonfiction books like Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson

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Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

By: Gillian Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Margaret Atwood, Owen Beattie, John Geiger

1. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

By: Margaret Atwood , Owen Beattie , John Geiger

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic ex… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Russell A. Potter

2. Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

By: Russell A. Potter

4.15

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had l… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) by Robert Louis Stevenson

3. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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  • historical
  • adventure
"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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4. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Cover of Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming

5. Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy

By: Fergus Fleming

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most chal… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

6. James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition

By: None

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

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7. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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8. The Terror

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more

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9. The North Water

By: Ian McGuire

3.98

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more

Similar categories in Ian McGuire's The North Water book and Gillian Hutchinson's Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

  • historical
  • adventure
"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."

-Ian McGuire, The North Water

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10. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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11. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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12. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

By: Andrea Pitzer

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in m… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Pitzer's Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World book and Gillian Hutchinson's Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin

13. Erebus: The Story of a Ship

By: Michael Palin

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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14. Agatha Raisin: The Complete BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: David Semple

4.30

Format: None pages, Audiobook

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to li… read more

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Cover of Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony by David C. Woodman

15. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony

By: David C. Woodman

4.26

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin exp… read more

Similar categories in David C. Woodman's Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony book and Gillian Hutchinson's Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition by Russell A. Potter

16. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition

By: Russell A. Potter

4.61

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

"May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth" is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson

17. Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

By: Gillian Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – th… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Hutchinson's Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found book and Gillian Hutchinson's Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition by Michael  Smith

18. Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition

By: Michael Smith

4.36

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: In Search of Franklin and His Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

19. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: In Search of Franklin and His Companions

By: Francis Leopold McClintock

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 by William Edward Parry

20. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2

By: William Edward Parry

3.71

Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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Cover of Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by William Edward Parry

21. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1

By: William Edward Parry

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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4.10

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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

Russell A. Potter

4.15

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

4.44

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Fergus Fleming

4.17

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Joan Druett

4.05

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4.27

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Nathaniel Philbrick

4.16

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Alfred Lansing

4.44

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