Resolute - Sandler, Martin W
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After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, 39 rescue missions were launched, including one by the HMS Resolute. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned. A year later, American whalers discovered the Resolute drifting 1,200 miles away and steered it 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--the Resolute Desk. With rare photographs, artwork, and maps throughout, this edition is updated with…mehr

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After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, 39 rescue missions were launched, including one by the HMS Resolute. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned. A year later, American whalers discovered the Resolute drifting 1,200 miles away and steered it 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--the Resolute Desk. With rare photographs, artwork, and maps throughout, this edition is updated with a new chapter on the discovery of Franklin's ships in 2014 and 2016 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Martin Sandler has received many honors, including winning the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for 1919: The Year That Changed America; two Pulitzer Prize nominations; a Boston Horn Book Award for The Story of American Photography; and seven Emmys. His Library of Congress American History series has been a national bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, and he is one of the few historians to have published with the Library of Congress. Sandler was creator and cowriter for the acclaimed twelve-part This Was America tv series. He has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts and Smith College. Sandler lives in Cotuit, MA.