Heinrich W. Klutschak (1848-1890) was an Austrian artist who accompanied the American sealing schooner Flying Fish to South Georgia in 1877–78 and published a narrative of his activities with a sketch map in 1881. William Barr is professor of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan, editor and translator of A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-1854, and Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880.

'Undoubtedly one of the best of the hundreds of books which have been written about the fate of Franklin.'- Peter Ward (Ottawa Citizen) 'Always interesting, often exciting, and sometimes amusing ... a delight to read.'- W. Gillies Ross (Polar Record) 'A fascinating saga.'- J. Keith Fraser (Canadian Geographic)