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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Recently I read Fatal Passage, Ken McGoogan s 2002 biography of a remarkable yet largely forgotten Arctic explorer, John Rae. Traveling by dogsled, in the style of the Inuit, Rae trekked thousands of miles along the northern coast of North America to fill in the blanks on regional maps. On May 6, 1854, from atop a barren ridge, he charted a strait that now bears his name, the final link in the long-sought Northwest Passage.
Like countless explorers before him, Rae always sought the high ground, the better to observe...
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