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Ken McGoogan

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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50 Canadians Who Changed The World

50 Canadians Who Changed The World

by Ken McGoogan
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Ancient Mariner

by Ken McGoogan
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Celtic Lightning

Celtic Lightning

How The Scots And The Irish Created A Canadian
by Ken McGoogan
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Chasing Safiya

by Ken McGoogan
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Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage
by Ken McGoogan
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Fatal Passage

by Ken McGoogan
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Flight of the Highlanders

The Making of Canada
by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867), great britain, social history
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Going for Gold

Going for Gold

by Catriona Le May Doan & Ken McGoogan
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How The Scots Invented Canada

How The Scots Invented Canada

by Ken McGoogan
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Lady Franklin's Revenge

Lady Franklin's Revenge

A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Artic History
by Ken McGoogan
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Lady Franklins Revenge

by Ken McGoogan
edition:Hardcover
tagged : 19th century
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Race To The Polar Sea

Race To The Polar Sea

The Heroic Adventures Of Elisha Kent Kane
by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : expeditions & discoveries
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A Journey to the Northern Ocean

A Journey to the Northern Ocean

by Samuel Hearne
foreword by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : pre-confederation (to 1867)
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John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

by John Rae
foreword by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : polar regions, oceania, expeditions & discoveries
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The Arctic Journals of John Rae

The Arctic Journals of John Rae

by John Rae
foreword by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : polar regions, expeditions & discoveries, oceania
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Mystery in the Frozen Lands

Mystery in the Frozen Lands

by Martyn Godfrey
introduction by Ken McGoogan
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tagged : polar regions, boats, ships & underwater craft, mysteries & detective stories
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