Erebus
One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Michael Palin tells the life of HMS Erebus, from its Antarctic voyage of discovery to its disappearance on Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.
In this 2018 book Michael Palin tells the story of HMS Erebus, a Royal Navy ship that sailed to Antarctica under James Clark Ross and then vanished with Sir John Franklin’s expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Palin follows its crews through triumph and disaster, visits the places they went, and closes with the discovery of the wreck in the Canadian Arctic in 2014.
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