# The Rifles

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- Book: [The Rifles](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-vollmann/the-rifles) ([The Rifles.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-vollmann/the-rifles.md))
- Authors: [William Vollmann](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-vollmann)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4017-623-0
- Pages: 432
- Published: 1995-04-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the...