Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922

Seek The Frozen Lands unveils an array of Irish heroes largely unknown in modern Ireland. Drawing on previously unpublished material and interviews with descendants, this book has a cast of characters as rich as any novel.
The saga begins in the eighteenth century when Arthur Dobbs advocated a renewed search for a Northwest Passage followed by Edward Bransfield, who made one of the first sightings of mainland Antarctica in 1820 when mapping the South Shetland Islands. It continues with the search for the Northwest Passage, ongoing scientific work, the discovery of the Antarctic Iceshelf and the charting of the Ross Sea in 1841 by Ross and Crozier. The pace quickens, with considerable Irish involvement in the search for Franklin, his second-in-command Crozier and their men, by McClintock, McClure and Kellett as they found their countrymen's skeletons scattered across the Canadian Arctic. Their reports horrified the world. The story ends with the heroic age of Antarctic exploration and the burial of Shackleton in 1922 in South Georgia.