A rather jaunty (i.e. unscholarly) account of Hearne’s adventures, with very little on Coleridge other than their meeting.
Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor who Inspired Coleridge’s Masterpiece.
McGoogan, Ken. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
- Hudson's Bay Company.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage.
McGoogan, Ken. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2017.
- Arctic Reading: General
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McGoogan claims to bring a new integrative emphasis to the indigenous elements involved in the search for the Northwest Passage adding to the British focus on the Royal Navy. The work is a broad overview of this history but not so innovative as it seems to claim. His final chapter 32 is called “Erebus and Terror Validate Inuit Testimony,” citing the discovery of the two ships (2014, 2016) as Inuit Vindication.
Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot.
McGoogan, Ken. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
- Arctic Reading: General
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p. 27, shows small library at HBC’s Moose Factory.