Erebus

May 19, 1845, Greenhithe, England: Sir John Franklin sets out with 134 men and two ships, the Terror and the Erebus, to chart the last white spot of the Northwest Passage in the Arctic ice. Three years later, the ships disappear, and their fate along with that of their crews remains a mystery for more than a century and a half – until 2014, when a true treasure is found off the northern coast of Canada: the wreck of the HMS Erebus. Michael Palin – Monty Python star, world traveler, and gifted storyteller – unfolds in his vivid and atmospheric bestseller the story of the Erebus, both glorious and tragic; from her launch through numerous voyages across all the world's oceans and the legendary journey to Antarctica that brought her and the intrepid explorers fame, to the fateful expedition in the Arctic that ended in disaster.