Fatal Passage The Untold Story of John Rae, the Artic Explorer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin
✍ Scribed by Ken McGoogan
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1554689198
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✦ Synopsis
Not long after he began reading the handwritten, 820-page diary of Scottish explorer John Rae, Ken McGoogan realized that here was an astonishing story, hidden from the world for almost 150 years. McGoogan, who was originally conducting research for a novel, recognized the injustice committed against Rae. He was determined to restore the adventurer's rightful place in history as the man who discovered not only the grisly truth about the lost Franklin expedition, but also the final link in the elusive Northwest Passage.
Fatal Passage is McGoogan's completely absorbing account of John Rae's incredible accomplishments and his undeserved and wholesale discreditation at the hands of polite Victorian society. After sifting through thousands of pages of research, maps and charts, and traveling to England, Scotland and the Arctic to visit the places Rae knew, McGoogan has produced a book that reads like a fast-paced novel-- a smooth synthesis of adventure story,...