Sorry, this is already a book thread. So I post my recommendation here too:

It is a brilliant novel about Franklin and his expedition: The Discovery of Slowness (Sten Nadolny) It has originally been written in german (Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit). Very well investigated. Especially John Franklin seemed to have been a very interesting character.

Read the amazon reviews: people start to get philosophical, when they write about this book.

A great weekend read, well worth the time. Maybe I should grab it again, too...

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I came in here to recommend this too. Great book. It's a fictional story that kind is accurate in that it keeps with the known time line of events and fills in all the blanks with a supernatural twist to the whole thing. Quite a scary book, too, as I remember.

Brilliant book. Every detail about the expedition that was known at the time is very accurately depicted. The parts that were not known are woven into a fantastical, supernatural horror story. I felt cold just reading about the cold.

Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In The Kingdom of Ice", which is really excellent. NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdo...

Didn't like it as much as I did "Hyperion" or "The Fall of Hyperion" but it was great historical fiction. Balls out scary, too.

Yeah. That is a great book. Highly recommended.