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WHAT'S NEW?
In autumn 2008, HarperCollins Canada will publish Ken’s new book, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane. In the U.S., California-based Counterpoint Press will bring out the work simultaneously. The book tells the true story of a supremely literate explorer who forged a unique, life-saving alliance with the Inuit while discovering “the American route to the North Pole.” In the 1850s, after sailing farther north than anyone else, Elisha Kane got trapped in the pack ice off Greenland. He battled starvation, disease and a near mutiny before abandoning ship to lead an astounding escape in sleds and small boats.
At around the same time as the book appears, by happy coincidence, Ken will be sailing in the area that Kane charted. Last year, as a resource historian with Adventure Canada, he sailed in the Northwest Passage. This year, with that same company, Ken will give talks while wending amongst the icebergs of Kane Basin. Is he excited about that or what?
Also this autumn, history buffs will get a chance to see the docudrama Fatal Passage, based on Ken's book of that title. Director John Walker has finished making "screeners" for the BBC and History Channel, which will broadcast the finished work – although it might turn up first at some film festival. The docudrama, which features Toronto actor Rick Roberts as John Rae, is produced by PTV Productions. During the shooting, PTV flew Ken to London, and he makes a cameo appearance in the finished work.
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