Fergus Fleming

Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (2000)

I read this when it was first published. It still reads well over ten years later. Although the search for the North West Passage, which became the search for Franklin lost looking for the North West Passage, dominates the book, Barrow's obsession with the Niger gives Fleming the opportunity to a...