Excerpt from The Fight to Conquer the Ends of the Earth: The World's Great Adventure, 1000 Years of Polar Exploration, Including the Heroic Achievements of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd At the commencement of the nineteenth century the spirit of exploration seized the mariners of England, and their efforts were devoted to the arctic regions. Following notable discoveries by Parry at sea and John Franklin by land, there was the last expedition of Franklin by sea. He sailed in 1845 for Lancaster Sound, with the Erebus and the Terror. The expedition perished to a man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.