Fatal Passage : The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)

from santhony

I enjoy reading non-fictional accounts of exploration, and have found two geographic regions particularly interesting; Amazonian and Arctic exploration. Perhaps this is because the issues faced by explorers of those regions are particularly challenging. This book is essentially a biography of Dr....

from santhony

I enjoy reading non-fictional accounts of exploration, and have found two geographic regions particularly interesting; Amazonian and Arctic exploration. Perhaps this is because the issues faced by explorers of those regions are particularly challenging. This book is essentially a biography of Dr....

from Lord_Boris

An enjoyable book in two parts. The first covers Rae's early life and in some detail his various Arctic expeditions. The second documents his subsequent life and the battles against Victorian English society. It's a book about an egalitarian versus the establishment with the backdrop being the No...

from amerynth

I generally love polar expedition stories, but I didn't particularly enjoy Ken McGoogan's "Fatal Pasage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forget." In a way, I understood why time forgot Rae as his story, at least told by McGoogan, isn't terribly interesting. The book is pretty dry...