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Fatal Passage
Ken McGoogan
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Description for Fatal Passage
Paperback. The true story of John Rae - Arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor - a tale of imperial ambition and high adventure. In 1854 Rae solved the two great Arctic mysteries: the fate of the doomed Franklin expedition and the location of the last navigable link in the Northwest Passage. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 3JH; BG; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
The true story of the remarkable John Rae - Arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor - FATAL PASSAGE is a tale of imperial ambition and high adventure. In 1854 Rae solved the two great Arctic mysteries: the fate of the doomed Franklin expedition and the location of the last navigable link in the Northwest Passage.
But Rae was to be denied the recognition he so richly deserved. On returning to London, he faced a campaign of denial and vilification led by two of the most powerful people in Victorian England: Lady Jane Franklin, the widow of the lost ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780553814934
SKU
V9780553814934
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Ken McGoogan
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Fatal Passage
In Ken McGoogan's artful telling, John Rae emerges from the shadows to take his place among the most intriguing of the 19th century Arctic explorers. This is delightful reading
Andrea Barrett, author The Voyage of the Narwhal A riveting story - backed by sold research - that illuminates a fascinating chapter in the annals of Arctic exploration
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Andrea Barrett, author The Voyage of the Narwhal A riveting story - backed by sold research - that illuminates a fascinating chapter in the annals of Arctic exploration
Wall ... Read more