Ancient Mariner - Softcover

McGoogan, Ken

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81 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006391575 ISBN 13: 9780006391579

Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial, 2004

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PUBLISHED TO GREAT REVIEWS in Canada, the US and the UK, Ancient Mariner tells the riveting story of how Samuel Hearne―a sailor at 12, a northern explorer at 24, an admirer of Native peoples―became the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America. Yet, as Ken McGoogan reveals, Samuel Hearne’s place in the history books has been a subject hotly disputed over the past two centuries. This fascinating saga, a skillful blend of literary detective work and finely imagined narrative, delights and surprises as it restores Hearne’s rightful place in history.

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PRAISE FOR ANCIENT MARINER
“Brisk, readable books about great Englishmen don’t come much better than this. The story of Samuel Hearne has something for everyone.” The Observer (UK)

“Compelling.... [Ancient Mariner] relates an often brutal tale with a surprising amount of grace and poetry.” Publishers Weekly

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About the Author:

KEN MCGOOGAN has published more than a dozen books, among them Fatal Passage, How the Scots Invented Canada, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, Celtic Lightning and Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. He has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” McGoogan has worked as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. He sails with Adventure Canada, teaches creative non-fiction in the MFA program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, and lives in Toronto with his artist-photographer wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan.

Review:

"'Brisk, readable books about great Englishmen doing great things - let us call it the School of Longitude - don't come much better than this...The story of Samuel Hearne has something for everyone'" OBSERVER "'McGoogan's strength lies in his knowledge of tribes such as the Chipaweyans and the Dene, married with exhaustive research...fascinating detail'" SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY "'His stirring story is one of true British grit'" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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