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Lady Franklin's Revenge A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History

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ISBN-10: 0002006715

ISBN-13: 9780002006712

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ken McGoogan

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With Lady Franklin's Revenge, bestselling author KenMcGoogan (Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner) delivers another pageturning biography that brings a remarkable historical figure vividly to life.Denied a role in Victorian England's male-dominated society, Jane Franklin(1791-1875) took her revenge by seizing control of that most masculine ofpursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping its history to her own ends.Arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century, LadyFranklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile,climbed mountains in Africa and the Holy Land, and, wearing petticoats, beat herway through the Tasmanian bush.When Sir John Franklin, her husband,…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.31" long x 1.52" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

KEN McGOOGAN is a Canadian writer - historian, biographer, novelist and journalist. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller FATAL PASSAGE about Scottish Arctic adventurer John Rae, which won the Writers' Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award and the Grant MacEwan Award. It also won a US Christopher Award as a work of artistic excellence that 'affirms the highest values of the human spirit'. McGoogan lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.