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Lady Franklin's revenge : a true story of ambition, obsession, and the remaking of Arctic history / Ken McGoogan

By:

McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers , c2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: 467 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780002006712

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 FRA

LOC classification:

G246.F68 M34 2005

Summary: Enied a role in Victorian England's male-dominated society, Jane Franklin took her revenge byseizing control of that most masculine of pursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping it to her own ends. Now, Ken McGoogan brings this remarkable, little-understood historical figure to life. Arguably the greatest woman traveller of her day, Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile, climbed mountains in Africa, and, wearing petticoats, beat her way through the Tasmanian bush. She ultimately circumnavigated the globe, capturing her experiences in voluminous diaries that provide a unique window onto the British Empire in the nineteenth century. When her husband, Sir John Franklin, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, in a misguided attempt to discover the final link in the Northwest Passage, she orchestrated an unprecedented twelve-year search. Though she failed to rescue Franklin, she contributed more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer, and turned failure into triumph by creating a legend that has survived to this day.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		044062

"A Phyllis Bruce Book".

Includes "Selected bibliography" (p. 452-455) and index.

Enied a role in Victorian England's male-dominated society, Jane Franklin took her revenge byseizing control of that most masculine of pursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping it to her own ends. Now, Ken McGoogan brings this remarkable, little-understood historical figure to life. Arguably the greatest woman traveller of her day, Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile, climbed mountains in Africa, and, wearing petticoats, beat her way through the Tasmanian bush. She ultimately circumnavigated the globe, capturing her experiences in voluminous diaries that provide a unique window onto the British Empire in the nineteenth century. When her husband, Sir John Franklin, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, in a misguided attempt to discover the final link in the Northwest Passage, she orchestrated an unprecedented twelve-year search. Though she failed to rescue Franklin, she contributed more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer, and turned failure into triumph by creating a legend that has survived to this day.

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