Ebook {Epub PDF} Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae the Arctic Hero Time Forgot by Ken McGoogan

 · This is the biography of the Arctic explorer, discoverer of the final link in the Northwest passage and that of the fate of Sir John Franklin's failed expedition, Dr. John Rae. Author Ken McGoogan brings Rae's character to life by describing his incredible feats of exploration in detail, including many passages from Arctic historians, illustrations of landscapes, maps and characters, and /5. FATAL PASSAGE: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero That Time Forgot. Ken McGoogan, Author, Kenneth McGoogan, Author. Carroll Graf $26 (p) ISBN Tweet. Fatal passage: the true story of John Rae, the Arctic hero time forgot Item PreviewUser Interaction Count:

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for FATAL PASSAGE: TRUE STORY OF JOHN RAE, ARCTIC HERO TIME By Ken Mcgoogan **NEW** at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in , hediscovered both the fate of the Franklin expedition and the only NorthwestPassage navigable by the ships of that time — the fatal passage explorers hadbeen seeking for centuries. — from Fatal PassageNot long after he began reading the handwritten, THE notorious Franklin expedition is the focus of BBC drama The Terror, but the story of the Scot who discovered its grisly end is still relatively unknown.. While John Franklin was lauded and falsely credited with the discovery of the legendary Northwest Passage, Orcadian John Rae was actually the man who first mapped out a navigable shipping route through the Arctic.

Calgary-based editor and novelist McGoogan pens a vivid biography of the first European to have seen great stretches of the Canadian Arctic and live to tell the tale. Author Ken McGoogan vividly narrates the astonishing adventures of Rae, who found the last link to the Northwest Passage and uncovered the grisly truth about the cannibalism of Franklin and his crew. A bitter smear campaign by Franklin's supporters would deny Rae his knighthood and bury him in ignominy for over one hundred and fifty years. Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin is a book by Canadian historian and writer Ken McGoogan. It was first published in The book formed the basis for the movie Passage from the National Film Board of Canada.