|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
by David Hackett Fischer
|
by Stephen Bown
|
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by Frances Widdowson |
by Stephen Hume
|
Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North by Heather Robertson |
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Product Description
The bestselling author of Lady Franklin's Revenge returns with the fascinating, little-known story of a fabled Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, scion of a wealthy and influential Philadelphia family, became a legend of 19th-century America. Before he was 30, he had descended into a volcano in the Philippines, infiltrated a company of slave traders in West Africa and narrowly survived hand-to-hand combat in the Sierra Madre while carrying a secret message from the president of the United States. Yet Kane would achieve his greatest fame by exploring the High Arctic, an adventure that began when he sailed in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin and the open water of an alleged "polar sea" around the North Pole. In the mid-1850s, Kane pushed farther north than any other voyager, then spent two years trapped in the ice before leading a desperate but heroic retreat that only added to his legend. Kane also enjoyed a secret love affair with a young Canadian-born spiritualist named Maggie Fox, a celebrated "spirit rapper" deemed unsuitable by his family. How this relationship combined with Kane's tragic early death to deny him his rightful place in history is one of the most dramatic aspects of the book. Race to the Polar Sea tells the story of a romantic adventurer driven by dreams of glory. It is a tale of heroism, courage and conspiracy that evokes an age when the Arctic seemed a white, booming emptiness, beautiful and unknowable.
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR LADY FRANKLIN'S REVENGE "Delivers more of what readers recognize as McGoogan hallmarks: intelligence, curiosity, strong research and highly readable prose." THE GLOBE AND MAIL "Belongs on the shelf next to such Arctic classics as Pierre Berton's The Arctic Grail." EDMONTON JOURNAL
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
