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Russell A. Potter

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Internationally known for his books and lectures about the lost Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845, Russell Potter has been researching the history of the expedition and those who searched for it for more than three decades. Among his books are Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture (2007), Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search (2016), and (as lead editor) May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (2022). He has appeared in a number of documentary programs, including an episode of PBS’s acclaimed NOVA series, Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice (2005), the Discovery Channel’s Mysteries of the Deep (2020), and the History Channel’s History’s Greatest Mysteries (2025). He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which in 2022 awarded him its Louie Kamookak medal, citing him as “one of the world’s foremost experts of the history of Arctic exploration,” whose work “introduced a new generation to the enduring mystery of the Franklin expedition.”

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Finding Franklin

The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

By: Russell A. Potter

Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Release date: 11-01-19

Language: English

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