In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS “Erebus” and HMS “Terror.” None returned Meilan Solly ...
A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, graces ...