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John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 miles (2,494 kilometres) of Arctic coastline; he is undoubtedly one of the Arctic’s greatest explorers, yet today his significance is all but lost. John Rae, Arctic Explorer is an annotated version of Rae’s unfinished autobiography. William Barr has extended Rae’s previously unpublished manuscript an
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- Author
- John Rae; William Barr
- Publisher
- Polynya Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781772123852
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Adventure, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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