Celebrating a Buried Treasure

If you missed it in the Globe . . . Buried Treasures / An Arctic adventurer worth remembering Elisha Kent Kane was a superstar adventurer and writer in the 19th century but is remembered today only by specialists and aficionados KEN MCGOOGAN Globe and Mail February 28, 2009 Back in New York City after spending…

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Yo, Peter C. Newman . . .

Yo, Peter, the cheque is in the mail. But seriously, thanks for the hit in today’s Globe and Mail. And for those who missed it, voila: “For a change of pace and mood, I’ve been devouring Ken McGoogan’s magnificent Race to the Polar Sea, published last year and arguably the most evocative of his four…

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