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  • Searching for Franklin

    New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shadows of Tyranny

    Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship

    by 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

    by 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. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mystery in the Frozen Lands

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kerouac's Ghost

    by 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 ... Read more

    $3.63 USD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    by 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Race to the Polar Sea

    The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Journey to the Northern Ocean

    by 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Searching for Franklin

    New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Dominion

    The Railway and the Rise of Canada

    by Stephen Bown ...
    Narrated by Wayne Ward ...

    Unabridged

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    A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nationIn The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    by David Grann ...
    Narrated by David Grann, Dion Graham ...

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Read more

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    Erebus

    One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time

    by Michael Palin ...
    Narrated by Michael Palin ...

    Unabridged

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    “Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” —Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage.Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from ... Read more

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