{"product_id":"b0dh9d6398","title":"Resolute (Revised Edition): John Franklin’s Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas. In  Resolute , noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, thirty-nine rescue missions were launched, including one by the  Resolute , the Royal Navy’s finest vessel. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA year later, a Connecticut whaling ship discovered it drifting 1,200 miles away, a 600-ton ghost ship. The whalers boarded the  Resolute  and steered it through a ferocious hurricane back to Connecticut. The US government re-outfitted the ship and returned it to Queen Victoria, who, in 1879, had its best timbers made into a desk for President Rutherford B. Hayes—a desk still in use today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition is updated with a new chapter on the discovery of Franklin’s ships, the HMS  Erebus  and the HMS  Terror , in 2014 and 2016 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54222208303467,"sku":"YSL23138","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/A1zy2wMFLuL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792813615","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0dh9d6398","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}