Race to the Polar Sea The Heroic Adventures

"Race to the Polar Sea" tells the story of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a handsome, charismatic figure who was also one of America's greatest 19th-century explorers. McGoogan clarifies the tragic fate of the woman Kane loved, and celebrates a shining example of American courage and survival.

Ken McGoogan is a globe-trotting Canadian writer who survived shipwreck off Dar es Salaam, chased the ghost of Lady Franklin from Russell Square to Van Diemen’s Land, and placed a John Rae memorial plaque in the High Arctic. Ken has published fifteen books--six histories, five biographies, three novels, and one ghosted work. His bestselling titles include Dead Reckoning, Celtic Lightning, Fatal Passage, 50 Canadians Who Changed the World, How the Scots Invented Canada, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, and Flight of the Highlanders.

Prologue Today & Yesterday	p. 1
Call to Adventure
In Search of Franklin	p. 9
The Philadelphia Story	p. 15
To Die in Harness	p. 22
Into the Volcano	p. 28
The Romance of Egypt	p. 35
Crime & Punishment	p. 42
Heart of Darkness	p. 47
A Mexican Escapade	p. 54
Raising the Curtain	p. 66
An Arctic Baptism	p. 74
The Beechey Graves	p. 80
Locked in the Ice	p. 88
After Eighty-Six Days	p. 95
Death in the Family	p. 100
The Spirit Rapper	p. 107
The Open Polar Sea	p. 117
Constancy & Change	p. 123
Trial by Winter
Defying the Ice	p. 131
The Belly of the Whale	p. 145
Science & Speculation	p. 153
Decades before Shackleton	p. 163
Heroes in Delirium	p. 177
Two Discoveries	p. 190
The Defection	p. 207
The Aristocrat Goes Native	p. 222
An Ignominious Return	p. 235
A Polar Nightmare	p. 244
Godfrey's Treachery	p. 255
Away like Stevedores	p. 264
The Ice Takes a Man	p. 275
An Incredible Journey	p. 284
Return of the Hero
Dr. Kane Home Again!	p. 301
Rumors & Rebuttals	p. 310
The Writer Delivers	p. 319
Two Become One	p. 325
The Land of Fog	p. 332
The Judgment of 1857	p. 340
The Verdict of History	p. 346
Acknowledgments	p. 362
Select Bibliography	p. 364
Illustration Credits	p. 366
Index	p. 367
Maps
Kane's Voyages, 1850-51 & 1853	p. xii
Kane's Arctic Trials, 1853-55	p. 130
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Race to the Polar Sea The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

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