audiobook Buddhism: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Clive Erricker in History

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Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels; 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. None were seen again until nearly a decade later; when their bleached bones; broken instruments; books; papers and personal effects began to be recovered on Canada's King William Island. These relics have since had a life of their own--photographed; analyzed; cataloged and displayed in glass cases in London. This book gives a definitive history of their preservation and exhibition from the Victorian era to the present; richly illustrated with period engravings and photographs; many never before published. Appendices provide the first comprehensive accounting of all expedition relics recovered prior to the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship HMS Erebus.