About the Book

When Sir John Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, it was his adventurouswife, Jane Franklin, who kept the search for him alive and, as a result, contributedmore to the discovery and mapping of the North than any explorer. A thirdmasterful biography from historian Ken McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge isthe richly documented story of a complex, ambitious Victorian—arguably thegreatest woman traveller of the 19th century— and the transformation of a failedexpedition into a triumphant legend. A Globe and Mail Book of the Year, andshortlisted for the Ontario Libraries Evergreen Award, Lady Franklin’s Revenge isan exquisitely illustrated epic adventure.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780006394723
• ISBN 10: 0006394728
• Imprint: Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial
• On Sale: 09/26/2006
• Pages: 480
• List Price:23.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
• BISAC2 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Ken McGoogan

Biography

KEN MCGOOGAN has published more than a dozen books, among them Fatal Passage, How the Scots Invented Canada, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, Celtic Lightning and Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. He has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Christopher Award for “a work of artistic excellence that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” McGoogan has worked as a journalist at major dailies in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. He sails with Adventure Canada, teaches creative non-fiction in the MFA program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, and lives in Toronto with his artist-photographer wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan.

Other Works by Ken McGoogan

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  Flight of the Highlanders

  By Ken McGoogan

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  Dead Reckoning

  By Ken McGoogan

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  Celtic Lightning

  By Ken McGoogan