![]() There was a contract between the man’s family and some barristers and solicitors in Sherwood Park, Alberta. He took papers from a desk and started photocopying and handing the copies to me. Franklin’s logbook? Was the man raving? Had I heard him right? We were all constantly listening for clues to this mysterious land. Nathan Rogers had fasted much of the journey, and I’d been sending psychological soundings of my own into the land, air, and waters around our vessel. Everyone on board our ship had at some time on this journey entertained dreams of Franklin’s this and Franklin’s that showing up before our eyes on the tundra or in the waters lapping the rocks. Not a button from his garment had been reclaimed. The logbook of Lord Franklin had never been found. It said, in French, that no matter how wild the flames, in the event of fire or any other unwanted excitement, hotel guests were entreated to maintain their sang froid. I remembered a tiny notice taped to the wall in a cheap hotel during my sojourn in Paris in my 20s. It was pretty hard not to get a bit excited at the mention of such a document. “I’m delighted to confirm that we have identified which ship from the Franklin expedition has been found,” Harper told the House of Commons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement in the House of Commons a little before 3 p.m., ending a month of speculation. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Sir John Franklin on his doomed attempt to find the Northwest Passage. The shipwreck Canada found in the Arctic a month ago is HMS Erebus, personal flagship of Capt. He wrapped them in a canvas material that had wax in it, then a metal container, then buried it here in Gjoa Haven.” An old Inuk guy handed the documents to the priest. “About 60 years ago, Father Henry got ahold of Franklin’s logbook.” The man, very close, spoke in an undertone, but I detected no danger. This is sometimes bad, but in this case I figured I was too old and shabbily dressed to be the object of either flirtation or robbery. When intriguing interactions come my way I have some mechanism that prompts me to answer as if everything is perfectly normal. It was a jacket, my husband said, that invited revelation. Later my husband would say the jacket must have been the reason this man chose to tell me what he did. I wore my husband’s ancient, gargantuan Helly Hansen raincoat with cement and paint and duct tape all over it, and I knew that compared with other passengers I looked scruffy. I gravitated to a quiet corner and let others look at carvings and charts, but someone followed me: a Gjoa Haven man I’d not noticed before. A few of us walked to the community office to look at artifacts from Gjoa Haven’s history. Our research ship, which I was aboard as the resident writer, had docked in the small Nunavut hamlet of Gjoa Haven during our cruise through Canada’s Arctic. Today’s excerpt is taken from Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage, by Kathleen Winter. In anticipation of this award, the National Post presents excerpts from all five nominated books this week. 14, the winner of the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction will be announced in Toronto. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series–as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.Join the conversation THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Article content Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. ![]() But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.ĭubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.Īnd from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone–a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again–beset by newly emerging threats from every direction.
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