May Fluhmann

I was very excited to find this biography of one of my favorite men in history: Captain Francis Crozier, second in command of the Franklin expedition. This biography is the earliest of only two biographies on Crozier, so I thought I would read it first. Sadly, it did not live up to expectations.

Fluhmann doesn't go into nearly enough detail on anything. She claims to have found Crozier's letters, yet there was nearly nothing in the book on his early life prior to his adventures at sea, which was a little disappointing. I was hoping with her access to his private letters, there would have been more information available. There was not. Even on his earlier expeditions, which should have been recorded with greater detail, were only glossed over. The only information unique to this biography were a few Eskimo accounts of the Franklin expedition at the back of the book. There were only two or three so even that wasn't terribly interesting.

Honestly, unless you're very interested in the Franklin expedition and the man who commanded most of it, Crozier, I wouldn't recommend this book. It's told in a slightly boring manner and nearly everything in here could also be found in Ice Blink by Scott Cookman or Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie and both of those books are much more interesting reads.… (plus d'informations)