Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean. Ken McGoogan. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2003. 334 pp. $36.95 hc.

Ken McGoogan's Ancient Mariner describes the exploits of the eighteenth-century, British explorer Samuel Hearne. As an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), Hearne became the first White man to travel to the Arctic Ocean over land; he was also instrumental in establishing the HBC's first inland trading post. Employing Hearne's own journals as well as academic texts, McGoogan formulates a narrative that ...

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