Fatal Passage

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The true story of the Victorian arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor who was subject to a hate campaign led by Lady Jane Franklin and Charles Dickens. Zusammenfassung 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.

Préface
The untold story of Scotsman John Rae, the Arctic adventurer who discovered the fate of Franklin and the navigable link in the Northwest passage

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The true story of the Victorian arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor who was subject to a hate campaign led by Lady Jane Franklin and Charles Dickens.

Résumé
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.