Book description
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. 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.
But Rae was to be denied the recognition he so richly deserved. On
returning to London, he faced a campaign of denial and vilification
led by two of the most powerful people in Victorian England: Lady Jane
Franklin, the widow of the lost Sir John, and Charles Dickens, the
most influential writer of the age. A remarkable story of courage and
determination, FATAL PASSAGE is Ken McGoogan's passionate redemption
of Rae's rightful place in history. In this richly documented and
illustrated work, McGoogan captures the essence of one man's
indomitable spirit.
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.
