{"product_id":"franklins-passage-9780773526839","title":"Franklin's Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey must have decided\u003cbr\u003eto return to the ship\u003cbr\u003edespite the flaming sword\u003cbr\u003eof the never-setting, the dark sword\u003cbr\u003eof the never-rising, sun.\u003cbr\u003eSame old story\u003cbr\u003eThe way back into the garden\u003cbr\u003eis also the way\u003cbr\u003einto the realm of the minerals\u003cbr\u003eIn the end\u003cbr\u003ewhat we are looking for\u003cbr\u003ewill find us\u003cbr\u003e\"Living must be your whole occupation,\"\u003cbr\u003ethe poet wrote. He got it right.\u003cbr\u003eNo, he got it half right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased upon the various conflicting accounts of John Franklin's calamitous attempt to complete and map the Northwest Passage, \u003ci\u003eFranklin's Passage\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its starting point a series of rhetorical questions posed by Henry David Thoreau in Walden: \"Is not our own interior white on the chart? Is it a North-West passage around this continent, that we would find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost?\" David Solway explores the concepts of narrative, parable, and allegory, treating the failed Expedition as an unfolding text in which the human adventure is subsumed and recorded, introducing the Expedition as a mirror in which the soul may see itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Solway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48828013019387,"sku":"9780773526839","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a1460b5b-d4c3-472e-982f-f4898c022b98.jpg?v=1777663981","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/franklins-passage-9780773526839","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}