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Article: Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin.(Review)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
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- October 1, 2001
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* Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin By Ken McGoogan Harper Collins, Toronto, 2001 328 pp., illus., $34.00 hardcover
Dr. John Rae, at various times surgeon, clerk, chief trader, and chief factor with the Hudson's Bay Company, was arguably the most cost-efficient and impressively successful Arctic explorer of any period in history. Travelling with small parties of men and largely living off the land, in a series of four expeditions (1846-47, 1847-49, 1850-51, and 1853-54), he explored and mapped the Arctic mainland coast from the west coast of Melville Peninsula to the west coast of Boothia ...