FATAL PASSAGE : UNTOLD STORY OF JOHN RAE - Softcover

Ken McGoogan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006386598 ISBN 13: 9780006386599

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2002

Synopsis

Fatal Passage 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. Full description

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Review:

"Rae...was hounded into obscurity, banished from the pantheon of approved Victorian Arctic explorers, and was the only important one not to be knighted."

"Rae emerges from the shadows to take his place among the most intriguing of the 19th-century Arctic explorers. Delightful reading"

"Ken McGoogan's passionate and immaculately researched book...is a sort of Arctic whodunit."

From the Publisher:

Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize - the most esteemed award for a biography in Canada - and the Lela Common Award for Canadian History, FATAL PASSAGE was also co-winner of the Grant MacEwan Author's Award and an Adventure Finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0006386598
• ISBN 13: 9780006386599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352