"Stretching from Greenland to Tasmania, Artcic Circles and Imperial Knowledge follows the Franklin family's imperial career over forty years. It examines how explorers, families, and intermediaries engaged in the 'politics of truth' as they tried to define what was and was not true and who could and could not be believed. These struggles for authority were entangled in changing Indigenous and European politics and technologies; practices of exploration and colonial governance; scientific and social networks; the aspirations of imperial humanitarians and settlers; and the everyday lives of traders, whalers, sailors, convicts, women, and children. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge weaves these stories together in an intimate global history of empire and exploration."