Paul Watson
Canadian journalist Paul Watson has been covering world events and wars for nearly two decades. While at the Toronto Star he earned several National Newspaper awards for social and cultural reporting. Watson earned international acclaim and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.
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Ice Ghosts
- By: Paul Watson
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.69(858 ratings)
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845–whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice–with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014.
Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones–until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.
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