Ancient Mariner - Hardcover

McGoogan, Ken

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80 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593052749 ISBN 13: 9780593052747

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2004

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Ken McGoogan chronicles Hearne's harrowing odyssey, which was marked by hardship, hunger and disappointment, and mitigated only by his friendship with the legendary Indian leader Matonabbee. Hearne's epic adventure culminated in the infamous massacre by the Coppermine River an event that became the cornerstone of his own book, Journey to the Northern Ocean, and changed his life forever. It was Hearne's own account of this atrocity that McGoogan believes inspired Samuel Coleridge's famous poem the "Time Of The Ancient Mariner". Haunted by guilt and sorrow, the explorer shared his story with the poet when they met in London.

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About the Author:

KEN McGOOGAN is a Canadian writer - historian, biographer, novelist and journalist. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Fatal Passage about Scottish Arctic adventurer John Rae, which won the Writers' Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award and the Grant MacEwan Award. It also won a US Christopher Award as a work of artistic excellence that 'affirms the highest values of the human spirit'. The author lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.

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"'Brisk, readable books about great Englishmen doing great things - let us call it the School of Longitude - don't come much better than this...The story of Samuel Hearne has something for everyone'" OBSERVER "'McGoogan's strength lies in his knowledge of tribes such as the Chipaweyans and the Dene, married with exhaustive research...fascinating detail'" SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY "'His stirring story is one of true British grit'" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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