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Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration.\"--Booklist  \"A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time.\"--The Scotsman  \"A vivid, sometimes harrowing chronicle of miscalculation and overweening Victorian pride in untried technology.a work of great compassion.\"--The Australian  It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time by two whalers in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships----and to the 129 men on board----has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing upon original research, Scott Cookman provides an unforgettable account of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, vividly reconstructing the lives of those touched by the voyage and its disaster. But, more importantly, he suggests a human culprit and presents a terrifying new explanation for what triggered the deaths of Franklin and all 128 of his men. 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Cookman is equally adept at depicting the gut-wrenching tension of ocean racing, the politics, intrigues, skullduggery of billionaires, society snobs, and sailors who make Captain Ahab seem the model of restraint, and a gilded, vanished era under the gathering storm clouds of war.\" - Neil Hanson, author of \"The Custom of the Sea\". It was the last and greatest yacht race of a gilded age: the emperor of Germany, two British lords, and eight American billionaires racing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to win a solid-gold trophy cup. In eleven of the fastest, most opulent yachts ever built, they battled fog, icebergs, gales, and each other to set an ocean racing record that has yet to be broken. Atlantic is the story of the men, ships, dangers, international intrigue and triumph of the 1905 Kaiser's Cup transatlantic race - and foreshadows the events that would put an end to almost all of those who sailed in it. 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