Baraa Saud Saud itibaren Raheempur, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan itibaren Raheempur, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan

Always a good read with some laughs.

So I felt the touch of serendipity while doing zone maintenance in fiction yesterday, tripping upon this title, which happens to overlap with my current read, Dan Simmons' The Terror, concerning the Franklin expedition and the search for the North-West Passage, Lady Jane, Dickens, and so forth. I got a bit weak in the knees, until I read the back, which states that Franklin and his wife move to Tasmania in 1841. "A quarter of a century passes" and Franklin has disappeared on his expedition and thoughts run to cannibalism. This concerns me. The expedition left port in 1845, and a search began in 1848. What is this "quarter of a century?" Has anyone who's read this defend this statement for me? Is this worth reading, or has Flanagan distorted truth to make a story? Don't want to waste my time if I can't trust it to some extent.