Ancient Mariner

"In addition to achieving an unnamed immortality in Coleridge's epic poem, few people know that during a remarkable three-year odyssey British explorer Samuel Hearne became the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean and stand on the northernmost shore of the Americas. McGoogan skillfully demonstrates that Hearne was far more complex, accomplished, and influential than history has until now acknowledged." "Hearne's posthumously published journal, the first book about an Arctic sojourn, describes a trek of 3,500 miles marked by hardship, hunger, and disappointment, and ameliorated only by his…