Started: 30.1.26
Finished: 1.2.26
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Though written by a different author, this could almost be a sequel to The Terror, which was my favourite book of 2025. This book relates the unsuccessful recovery mission by HMS Enterprise and HMS Investigator, who spent the winter of 1848-49 at Port Leopold, dispatching several sledge teams to search for Captain Sir John Franklin, Captain Crozier and the men of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. There is no supernatural element in Bitter Passage, but once again there is a mixture of fact and fiction. It focuses mainly on Lieutenant Frederick Robinson, the leader of one sledge team, and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams, who accompanies him. Both men are driven to find Franklin, but for very different reasons, and face a struggle against the claustrophobic isolation of the Arctic, as well as their own ambition and beliefs. I really loved this book!
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