ANCIENT MARINER: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF SAMUEL HEARNE
by Ken McGoogan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0002000989
- ISBN 13
- 9780002000987
- Seller
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a stated first edition of Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean. It was written by the Canadian author Ken McGoogan and published in 2003.
Samuel Hearne was an 18th-century British sailor who, McGoogan proves, was the model for Samuel Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He served at sea during the Seven Years' War, then entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. For 17 years he was in the Arctic, and he became the first European to travel overland across the Arctic Circle. He also enjoyed good relations with the Indians, to the point of marrying a half-Indian wife; founded new fur-trading outposts; and was one of the first Europeans to adopt Indian and Inuit survival techniques in the Arctic. When he returned to England, he turned his diaries into one of the first major memoirs of Arctic exploration. This is a ripping yarn about the life of a relatively unknown hero of exploration and maritime history.
This book is 334 pages, including maps, photos and illustrations.
Unclipped dust jacket.
It has not been read and is in mint condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1439
- Title
- ANCIENT MARINER: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF SAMUEL HEARNE
- Author
- Ken McGoogan
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002000989
- ISBN 13
- 9780002000987
- Publisher
- Harper Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 334
- Keywords
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hudson's Bay Company, Arctic, Inuit
- Bookseller catalogs
- British History; Canadian History; Maritime, Ships, Boats; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories; Adventure, Travel & Exploration;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Louise Aird
Biblio member since 2019
West Vancouver, British Columbia
About Louise Aird
Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.
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