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ANCIENT MARINER: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic OceanIn 1757, when twelve-year-old Samuel Hearne joined the Royal Navy as an apprentice to the famous British fighting Captain Samuel Hood, he embarked on a life of high adventure and unusual risk. This courageous young sailor would become the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America, during an unprecedented, three-year odyssey in the forbidding Barren Lands. In Ancient Mariner, Ken McGoogan has written a colorful, real-life saga that restores this extraordinary yet controversial figure to his rightful eminence. McGoogan paints a vivid word-portrait of life in the eighteenth-century, taking readers on and off the wooden sailing ships, through Dr. Johnson’s London, a city of 5,000 coffee houses, and away to the farthest reaches of North America. After serving as a midshipman during the Seven Years War, Hearne joined the Hudson’s Bay Company and was posted to Prince of Wales Fort on Hudson Bay. From there, the ambitious young man embarked on an overland quest for a fabled copper mine – and also to discover the Northwest Passage. (continued) |
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