In writing Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage, I have built on the foundation I laid with my four previous books about Arctic exploration. Their bibliographies include more than two hundred citations, among them all of the standard references. Those seeking further reading material will find much there:
Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2003.
Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2001.
Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2005.
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2008.
In addition, I have incorporated research I did while writing forewords to three books:
A Journey to the Northern Ocean: The Adventures of Samuel Hearne. Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2007.
John Rae’s Arctic Correspondence, 1844–1855. Victoria: Touchstone Editions, 2014.
The Arctic Journals of John Rae. Victoria: Touchstone Editions, 2012.
The present volume also draws on articles and reviews I have published in Canada’s History, Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, Polar Record, Arctic, Literary Review of Canada, Up Here, Alberta Views, the Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette and Calgary Herald, as well as “travel logs” I wrote while voyaging with Adventure Canada.
A number of publications not cited in my earlier books—either because they were not relevant or were not yet published—round out a short list for further reading:
Barr, William, ed. From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
———ed. Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878–1880. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Botting, Douglas. Humboldt and the Cosmos. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Bown, Stephen. The Life of Roald Amundsen. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012.
———White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2015.
Burwash, L. T. “The Franklin Search.” Canadian Geographical Journal, vol. 1, no. 7 (November 1930): 593.
Byers, Michael. Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.
Craciun, Adriana. Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Cyriax, R. J. Sir John Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition. London: Methuen, 1939.
Davis, Richard, ed. Sir John Franklin’s Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expedition, 1819–1822. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1995.
Davis, Richard, ed. Sir John Franklin’s Journals and Correspondence: The Second Arctic Land Expedition, 1825–1827. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1998.
Dodge, Ernest S. The Polar Rosses: John and James Clark Ross and Their Explorations. London: Faber & Faber, 1973.
Eber, Dorothy Harley. Encounters on the Passage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Fleming, Fergus. Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers. London: Granta Books, 1998.
Geiger, John, and Alanna Mitchell. Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2015.
Grant, Shelagh D. Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.
Hansen, Thorkild. The Way to Hudson Bay: The Life and Times of Jens Munk. Translated by James McFarlane and John Lynch. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970.
Harper, Kenn. Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo. Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2000.
Henderson, Bruce. True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Holland, Clive. Arctic Exploration and Development, c. 500 BC to 1915: An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994.
Houston, C. Stuart, ed. Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819–1822. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.
———ed. Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820–1822. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1984.
Hunter, Douglas. God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2007.
Kenyon, W. A. The Journal of Jens Munk, 1619–1620. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
Krupnik, Igor, ed. Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s–1980s. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2016.
Lambert, Andrew. Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber & Faber, 2009.
Mancall, Peter C. Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
McDermott, James. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, 2001.
McGhee, Robert. The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.
McGoogan, Ken. “Defenders of Arctic Orthodoxy Turn Their Backs on Sir John Franklin.” Polar Record, vol. 51, no. 2, (March 2015): 220–221. (Published online October 2, 2014.)
Mills, William James. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, C.A.: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Neatby, Leslie H. In Quest of the Northwest Passage. Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1958.
Newman, Peter C. Company of Adventurers: The Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Toronto: Viking, 1985.
Nickerson, Sheila. Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition. New York: Tarcher-Putnam, 2002.
Osborne, S. L. In the Shadow of the Pole: An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912. Toronto: Dundurn, 2013.
Parry, Ann. Parry of the Arctic: The Life Story of Admiral Sir Edward Parry. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963.
Parry, Edward. Memoirs of Rear Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, by His Son. London: Longman, Brown, 1857.
Parry, Richard. Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.
Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage . . . in the Years 1819–20. London: John Murray, 1821.
Potter, Russell. Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Rasky, Frank. The Polar Voyagers. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
———The North Pole or Bust: Explorers of the North. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
Rich, Edwin Gile. Hans the Eskimo. Cambridge, M.A.: Riverside Press, 1934.
Ross, John. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage. London: John Murray, 1819.
Ross, M. J. Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.
Ruby, Robert. Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England’s Arctic Colony. New York: Henry Holt, 2001.
Scranton, Roy. “What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse.” The Nation, November. 9, 2015.
Smith, D. Murray. Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores. Southampton: Charles H. Calvert, 1877.
Steele, Peter. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003.
Stein, Glenn M. Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2015.
Woodman, David C. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony, 2nd ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.
Young, Delbert A. “Killer on the ‘Unicorn.’” The Beaver, Winter 1973, 9–15.