Showing Ancient Mariner by Ken McGoogan

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 329 in Publisher: Bantam In 1757 when twelve-year-old Samuel Hearne joined the Royal Navy as an apprentice to the famous fighting captain Samuel Hood he was embarking on a life of high adventure . This young sailor would become the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America. the author of a classic work of exploration literature. and the man who inspired one of the greatest poems in the English language. Yet. for over two centuries. Hearne's place in history has been a subject of dispute. In ANCIENT MARINER. Ken McGoogan paints a vivid portrait of life in the eighteenth century. from London through to the farthest reaches of North America. After serving as a midshipman during the Seven Years War. Hearne joined the Hudson's Bay Company and was posted to the Arctic coast. From there he embarked on an overland quest for a fabled c...