
This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expedition to the Boothia Peninsula, Rae discovers the missing link in the Northwest Passage. On the same trip, a chance encounter with an Inuit hunter leads him...

What happens when the greatest explorer of his time uncovers a truth so devastating that an entire empire tries to bury it? In 1854, Dr. John Rae returns from the frozen wasteland of the Arctic with the answer to the era's greatest mystery: the fate of Sir John...