Ken McGoogan, the award-winning author of 15 books, including five bestsellers on Arctic exploration, is offering two free public presentations at the University of Northern BC.
McGoogan will talk about his latest book Searching for Franklin: New Answer to the Great Arctic Mystery at Canfor Theatre on Oct. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m. McGoogan will sign his book after the presentation.
McGoogan’s latest work takes a creative-nonfiction approach to Arctic exploration history.
On Thursday, Oct. 19, McGoogan will talk about how Searching for Franklin rejects old theories while incorporating recent discoveries, interweaving two main narratives.
McGoogan will first talk about the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost 11 of his 20 men to exhaustion, starvation, and murder.
The second narrative discovers a startling new answer to the greatest of Arctic mysteries: why did Franklin’s 1845 expedition devolve into catastrophe?
On Friday, Oct. 20, McGoogan presents Nothing is More Fun than Chasing History: Adventures in Creative Nonfiction.
During this talk, McGoogan will relay how in the beginning, and like most writers, he dreamed of becoming a famous fiction writer and published three novels in the early 1990s. Then he discovered history, more specifically the joys of chasing down and writing about real people caught up in big true stories.
