 |
Receive notice of Ken McGoogan's new books, tour dates, and promotions.
Sign up now! Enter your email address below. |
|
|
 |
|
 |
| Manifestly hard at work, astonished by
the absence of snow and ice, Ken welcomes you to his website
from Beechey Island in the High Arctic. He sits writing at
the site where in 1850, Elisha Kent Kane became one of the
first to discover three snowswept headstones. These marked
the graves of sailors who had died during the last tragic
expedition of Sir John Franklin, who had disappeared while
seeking the elusive Northwest Passage. Kane became convinced
that some Franklin survivors may have got trapped behind an
ice barrier in an Open Polar Sea at the top of the world. In
1853, he sailed north to discover that sea and rescue them –
a tale at the heart of Race to the Polar Sea. |
 |
|
