John Harris

Bestselling author John Harris freshly investigates seven of the most gripping and intriguing voyages of the past 150 years. Bringing his unique skills as a novelist and sailor to reassess the fragmentary evidence, he aims to finally answer these enduring and terrifying mysteries.

He takes us: aboard Erebus and Terror on Sir John Franklin's disastrous Arctic expedition, last seen parting from their escort; aboard the Mary Celeste, crewed by a well-respected captain and an experienced crew, abandoned in the mid-Atlantic; aboard the battleship Maine, blown sky-high in Havana harbour; aboard the collier Cyclops, disappeared between Barbados and Virginia during the First World War; and aboard the Teignmouth Electron, winner-apparent of the round the world yacht race, sighted deserted and drifting…

This is life at sea at its most epic and frightening.