About the book: 2015 / The death of Sir John Franklin's expedition is one of the most mysterious pages in the history of Arctic exploration. Her Majesty's two ships, equipped with the latest advances, disappeared forever into white silence. After a long search, the remains of some members of their teams were discovered on the deserted islands of the Canadian archipelago. These bones suggested terrible guesses, but still did not answer the main question: why did a brilliantly prepared enterprise suffer such a crushing failure? In the mid-1980s, Canadian forensic anthropologist Owen Beatty and his comrades landed on Beachy Island to open the graves three Franklin sailors and find out what kind of curse fell on the British expedition.