1. Mordecai Richler quite wonderful on Franklin Expedition in Solomon Gursky Was Here, which I'll quote from in next few tweets.
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2. “The fact that a Christian would accept the word of the Natives on such an insidious matter inflamed not only Lady Franklin, but also..."
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3. "other Britons, among them Charles Dickens. The source of these stories, Dickens wrote, was a ‘covetous, treacherous and cruel’ people.."
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4. "....with a proven taste for ‘blood and blubber.’
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5. "Members of the Franklin expedition represented the ‘flower of the trained English Navy’ and, therefore ....
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6. "‘it is in the highest degree improbable that such men … would or could, in any extremity of hunger, alleviate the pains of starvation.."
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7. "...by this horrible means.’”
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