Race to the Polar Sea

The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane

By Ken McGoogan

HarperCollins, 365 pages, $35

Toronto-based biographer Ken McGoogan mesmerized readers in 2002, with his award-winning Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot. The acclaimed Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History followed in 2005.

Now McGoogan captivates readers again, with his gripping tale of Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), another forgotten Arctic hero, whose extraordinary adventures and tragic undoing ...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Biography of Arctic explorer once again ..."