Franklin's Footsteps: A Sketch of Greenland, along the Shores of which his Expedition Passed, and of the Parry Isles, Where the Last Traces of it Were Found

Clement Robert Markham (1830–1916) was a geographer who took part in one of the many Arctic expeditions launched to search for missing explorer John Franklin (1786–1847). This account, published in 1853, was written in response to criticism of the expedition. They had found some evidence of Franklin's route – he had set off in May 1845 to find the North-West Passage – but returned to Britain without any of the survivors. Markham gives a brief history of Arctic exploration, but the majority ...