Biography & Autobiography Historical
Lady Franklin's Revenge
A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Artic History
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2010
- Category
- Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554689200
- Publish Date
- Dec 2010
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
When Sir John Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, it was his adventurous wife, Jane Franklin, who kept the search for him alive and, as a result, contributed more to the discovery and mapping of the North than any explorer. A third masterful biography from historian Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge is the richly documented story of a complex, ambitious Victorian—arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century— and the transformation of a failed expedition into a triumphant legend. A Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Ontario Libraries Evergreen Award, Lady Franklin’s Revenge is an exquisitely illustrated epic adventure.
About the author
KEN MCGOOGAN is the best-selling author of a dozen books, among them 50 Canadians Who Changed The World, How The Scots Invented Canada, Fatal Passage and Lady Franklin’s Revenge. He has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography, the Canadian Authors’ Association History Award, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and an American Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” Before turning mainly to books, Ken worked for two decades as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal. He teaches creative nonfiction writing through the University of Toronto and in the MFA program at King’s College in Halifax. Ken served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, has written recently for Canada’s History, Canadian Geographic and Maclean’s, and sails with Adventure Canada as a resource historian. Based in Toronto, he has given talks and presentations across Canada, and in faraway places as different as Edinburgh, Sydney, Stromness, and Hobart. www.kenmcgoogan.com
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Shadows of Tyranny
Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship
Searching for Franklin
New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
Flight of the Highlanders
The Making of Canada
Dead Reckoning
The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage
Celtic Lightning
How The Scots And The Irish Created A Canadian
Celtic Lightning
How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation
50 Canadians Who Changed The World
John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855
The Arctic Journals of John Rae
