The Investigators

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<i>'Our discoveries have been great, but the risks and misfortunes many.'</i> John Franklin always wanted to be a sailor. As a volunteer in the Royal Navy at age fourteen, he found himself in the Battle of Copenhagen, but nothing could prepare him for the adventure of a lifetime, when he set off in 1801 with his cousin Matthew Flinders on HMS <i>Investigator</i> as it sought to chart the