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050	0	0	_aG246.F68 _bM34 2005
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100	1		_aMcGoogan, Kenneth, 1947-
245	1	0	_aLady Franklin's revenge _b: a true story of ambition, obsession, and the remaking of Arctic history _c/ Ken McGoogan
250			_a1st ed
260			_aToronto _b: HarperCollins Publishers _c, c2005.
300			_a467 p. _b: ill., maps, ports. _c; 24 cm.
500			_a"A Phyllis Bruce Book".
504			_aIncludes "Selected bibliography" (p. 452-455) and index.
520			_aEnied 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.
600	1	4	_aFranklin, Jane Griffin _c, Lady _d(, 1792-1875)
650	1	4	_aWomen travelers
650	1	4	_aWomen explorers
650	1	4	_aExplorers _z-Great Britain _v--Biography
651		7	_aBrothers _v--Drama
942			_cMO
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