A cold case heats up again
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 06:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Twenty-five years ago, a U of A professor together with a newly minted alumnus, John Geiger, '81 BA, published Frozen in Time, a shocking and influential account of the Franklin expedition's disastrous final days. Lead poisoning. Cannibalism. Then there were those photos—of a young sailor thawing out after more than a century buried in the tundra. Now, Geiger—today the president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society—writes about the renewed interest in the ill-fated expedition and the pieces of the story that still remain to be uncovered.