I have made no secret of the fact that I love reading about doomed Arctic (or Antarctic) explorations. Franklin, the Erebus, and the Terror is probably my favorite one to learn more about, so I was taken with the idea of a book about the crew who tried to find them. Despite trying more than once, I was unable to read this book. The writing was clunky and the format was even more heavy-handed. I really wanted to fill in the gaps of my knowledge of the rescue efforts but I quickly realized this was not the book to do that.