In 1819 an expedition set out from England in the hopes of mapping coastline in the remote northern stretch of Canada. What followed was a horrific bungle, more suited to the pages of a paperback thriller than actual history. 

This is the story of the Coppermine Expedition

Sources: 

Franklin Overland: https://franklinoverland.ca/

Sir John Franklin: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22

Fergus Fleming: Barrow's Boys (Chapter: The Man who ate his Boots)

Peter Steele: The Man who Mapped the Arctic 

Ken McGoogan: Dead Reckoning