Discovering the North-West Passage

<p> From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS <I>Investigator</I> on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The <I>Investigator</I> and her consort the <I>Enterprise</I> were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with tra