Douglas Hunter holds a PhD in history and is the author of God’s Mercies, Half Moon, and The Race to the New World, on exploration history.
July 8, 2016
The desire to solve the mystery of the Franklin expedition’s loss has infected investigators like a virus. Potter himself has been seized by this infection, but he is still able to record the patient histories of those swept up in a contagion that has produced outbreaks for more than a century and a half.