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  • Searching for Franklin

    New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

    de Ken McGoogan ...
    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Shadows of Tyranny

    Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship

    de Ken McGoogan ...
    In response to right-wing extremism in the United States and around the world, Ken McGoogan offers lessons from history by looking back at the rise of authoritarianism and the collapse of European democracies in the lead-up to World War II.*INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistIn Shadows of Tyranny, historian Ken McGoogan warns against the future by drawing on the past, setting the emergence of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mystery in the Frozen Lands

    de Martyn Godfrey ...
    It's 1857, and teenager Peter Griffin joins a sea mission to solve a world-famous mystery: what really happened to arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Franklin and his crew of 128 men had sailed from England twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest Passage, a sea route through the Arctic between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Mysteriously, the entire Franklin expedition disappeared without ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

    de John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845. Based on evidence given to him by local Inuit, Rae determined that Franklin’s crew had resorted to cannibalism in their final, desperate days. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Kerouac's Ghost

    de Ken McGoogan ...
    Frankie McCracken is still recovering from the Psychedelic Sixties when, while working as a fire lookout in the Canadian Rockies, he finds himself wrestling with a miracle-worker who claims to be the late Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats. This kaleidoscopic coming-of-age novel arrives in 2016 like a note in a bottle from a distant world.Fiction writer Matt Cohen hailed this work as "an unrepentant ... Leer más

    $3.63 USD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    de John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Race to the Polar Sea

    The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

    de Ken McGoogan ...
    In the mid–1800s, geographers revived the ancient idea that at the top of the world, encircling the North Pole, lay a temperate "Open Polar Sea." Without doubt, the voyager who discovered this balmy basin would etch his name forever in the annals of exploration. Among those drawn to the challenge was Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a handsome, charismatic figure from a leading Philadelphia family who was ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Journey to the Northern Ocean

    de Samuel Hearne ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    Widely recognized as a classic of northern-exploration literature, A Journey to the Northern Ocean is Samuel Hearne's story of his three-year trek to seek a trade route across the Barrens in the Northwest Territories. Hearne was a superb reporter, from his anguished description of the massacre of helpless Eskimos by his Indian companions to his meticulous records of wildlife, flora and Indian ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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    Searching for Franklin

    New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

    de Ken McGoogan ...
    Narrado por Bob Souer ...

    Completo

    9 hora 41 minutos

    Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage.This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook