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KEN MCGOOGAN is the author of a dozen books, among them four bestsellers about Arctic exploration: Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin’s Revenge and Race to the Polar Sea. Those works won the Pierre Berton Award, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Canadian history, the Grant MacEwan Author’s Award, and a Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence.”
Ken worked as a journalist for two decades, moving from the Toronto Star to the Montreal Star and the Calgary Herald, as books editor and columnist. He has served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Explorers Club. He teaches narrative non-fiction at the University of Toronto and in the MFA program at University of King’s College in Halifax. Every summer, he voyages in the Northwest Passage as a resource historian with Adventure Canada.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New, Unread Copy. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. In The Spring Of 1854, John Rae, A Scottish Immigrant To Canada, Led A Small Party Of Explorers Across The Boothia Peninsula To Map The Missing Link In The Fabled Northwest Passage. That Signal Accomplishment, Along With Rae's Other Contributions To Canadian And World Geography, Should Have Earned Him Glory. Instead, Ken Mcgoogan Tells Us, Rae Faded From The Record. Rae's Trouble, Mcgoogan Writes, Came From Unpleasant Reports That He Filed About The Fate Of An Earlier Expedition, Led By Sir John Franklin, Whose Remains He Discovered Along The Way. Lost "In A Hummocky Wasteland Of Yawning Crevasses And Ten-Foot Pressure Ridges Assailed By Blizzards And Blowing Snow," The Unfortunate Party--Or So Inuit Hunters Reported To Rae--Resorted To Eating The Dead. The News Scandalized Victorian Society, Drawing Vigorous Objections From None Other Than Charles Dickens, Who Argued That Proper British Heroes Were Incapable Of Such Acts And Had To Have Been Done In By The Inuit Themselves. Rae, The Messenger, Was Effectively Killed By The Tidings He Brought, And Written Out Of The History Books. In This Insightful And Adventure-Packed Book, Mcgoogan Restores Rae's Name To The Long Roster Of Heroes Of Arctic Exploration. --Gregory Mcnamee. Seller Inventory # 006381
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