Ken McGoogan

RACE TO THE POLAR SEA:
The Heroic Adventures of
Elisha Kent Kane

2. Race to the Polar Sea draws on a long-lost journal. Almost by chance, after doing research in Kane's hometown Philadelphia, Ken learned that a Calgary antiquarian had acquired material from the Kane family. While investigating that material, he made an stunning discovery: a handwritten, 376-page logbook from Kane's second expedition. This private journal, missing for 150 years, sheds new light on Kane's entire life.

3. Elisha Kane has been mistreated by history. After surviving two horrific winters in the Arctic, making notable discoveries, and forging a unique alliance with the Inuit, Kane led his men in the most dramatic escape in Arctic history, man-hauling sledges and sailing hundreds of kilometres in small open boats. Question: Why has this man been so completely forgotten? Answer: Kane secretly married a young woman named Maggie Fox – a spiritualist born and raised in what is now Prince Edward County, Ontario. Maggie died tragically – and for this, Elisha Kane has been wrongly blamed. Race to the Polar Sea sets the record straight.

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