commentary: In the 16th cent. the Pont-Neuf was the scene of the recitals of Tabarin, a famous satirist of the day, and it was long afterwards the favourite...

him in the Chapel of St Michael at Westminster Abbey. Many geographic locales are named after Franklin, among them Franklin Island in Antarctica, Franklin...

ISBN 978-0-19-504184-2. Haddelsey, Stephen; Carroll, Alan (2014). Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944–46. Stroud, England:...

expedition to Spitsbergen, sent Van Muyden in the Neptunus to the same locale in 1612. They hired the absconding bankrupt Alan Sallows as pilot, a man...