I am the mother of two children with disabilities. I do not have a child with cancer. However, when I picked up the book "Conquering Kids Cancer", I could not put it down. This book is not just for a family going through cancer, it's for any family. Dr. Lazarus makes a good source of information for anyone interested in learning more about cancer including anyone in the medical field. His down to earth writing makes this book a must have. It made me laugh and cry but most of all it made me appreciate life to the fullest.

Dr. Lazarus gives a good commentary on how medicine is more than just administering RX to patients. It goes so much furthur than that. Dr. Lazarus shares some heartwarming stories about his road in the pediatric oncology world. It also reveals why a doctor would choose this specialization. I for one am glad he did.

A great compassionate doctor reveals how medicine should be practiced

As a historian, I am aware of few books that tell the story of the air war over Europe from the Canadian perspective. 'Cradle Crew' is such a book, and it's a good one that I highly recommend. Written by Ken Blyth, a Canadian who became the pilot of one of the youngest air crews to fly over Europe in the war (thus the name 'Cradle Crew'), this story tells of the entire air crew experience, from enlistment through combat. But it goes much farther, for Blyth and his crew were shot down over Europe and ended up spending time in a German Stalag as POW's. Therefore, the book not only gives the reader an excellent, well-written perspective on the Canadian aircrew experience in the war, but is also a memoir of a POW. Blyth is a strong writer, and his story is engaging and never dull. This is an excellent book, and an important addition to the literature on the air war over Europe. It is invaluable as one of few Canadian books on the subject. Filled with interesting and rare photos of crew life, aircraft, and German Stalags, this is a must-have for any aviation history lover, and should be in every Canadian's bookshelf as a record of how the men from up north helped defeat Hitler and save the world not so many years ago.

I really enjoyed reading Blyth's account of his escapades during WWII. It is one of those "slice of life" books where you can really get a good understanding of his (and his crew's) time in the RCAF and the war. For any students who are studying the treatment of POWs in the different wars, this book would give them valuable insight into the German's treatment of POWs in WWII. Enjoyable!

This book was great because it gave wonderful insight to what it was like during WWII. There is such detail about everything the author experienced from flying night raids, his capture and the surroundings at the POW camp. I really enjoyed all the different stories about his crew and other POWs. The author is a great storyteller!!

This is **THE** analog ICs book. Thorough, lucid, and uncompromising. It has no peers!

it's a very good analog design book for beginner. it not only gives a good analysis on circuits, also offers valuable design tricks. very practical, clear illustrated and well organized.

I was looking for a book that really goes deep into the circuit and analyze everything including its exact behaviour, stability..etc. Although many books claims to do that, most of them just sail in the shallow water! This book, however, was incredible in its insight into the analog circuit in a way that makes you a real master in analog circuits!

I was recently given a 1957 edition of this book...mine does not have colorful pages to look at for my 2, 4, and 8 year olds BUT I have never had such quality devotional time with my children. I am a Bible scholar/teacher and it is apparent in this devotional that the author not only understands his audience but also loves the subject matter...the doctrines of our faith! These are NOT BIBLE STORIES...they are BIBLE DOCTRINAL TEACHING for CHILDREN. Even my four year old participates and is able to easiliy comprehend the difficult concepts such as ONLY ONE GOD / THE TRINITY...WHERE DID GOD COME FROM?...IF WE CANNOT SEE GOD, HOW CAN WE KNOW HE IS ALIVE?...THE ORIGIN OF SIN...WHO IS SATAN?...WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ASK JESUS TO BE OUR SAVIOR...WHAT IF WE SIN AFTER WE ARE SAVED?...HOW DO WE KNOW THE BIBLE IS TRUE? Some of these questions most adult believers have difficulties answering...but ask my kids, they learned them fom this book...it is truly a TIMELESS TREASURE from Jehovah!

When you are dealing with children under 10, you have to limit time on what you are teaching, or risk losing their attention. This wonderful devotional is perfect for getting the bible doctorine across to 5-10 year olds in their language. It takes no more that 10-20 minutes, including bible verses. Each devotion gives bible verses, explanations, a short story about it, and a prayer and hymm. Absolutley wonderful, my children and I look foward to bible time each evening. I wish there were more like it.

Devotions is a series of small chapters (most are three pages) that teach children everything they need to know to have faith and why. They learn God's love for us, Jesus' mission and forgiveness by the cross. They are taught characteristic behaviors for Christian living. Simple examples at the end of each chapter illustrate the chapter's point and make it easy for a child to apply the teaching to his own life. Devotions offers scriptural references to support the chapter's teaching. It provides questions at the end of the chapter to reinforce the lesson. My children have delighted in their learning. It is sensible to them.....not a tremendous unfathomable mystery. My nine-year-old at times will take the lead and read to his younger siblings. A very simplistic perspective encourages young learners!

Dimensions of Dreams is the first of the author's books to appear in English - Vedfelt is co-founder of the Jung Institute and the author of numerous books on psychology, and here explores psychology from Freud and Jung to Perls and others. Traditional approaches blend with more modern insights in a title which provides a range of views about sleep research, REM discoveries, and psychology and parapsychology.

I have been fascinated by the Dimensions of Dreams by Ole Vedfelt and would like to express my opinion about the book with a translation of a review from the leading German newspaper "DIE WELT", when the book was published in Germany:

Exciting Dimensions in One Large Organic Whole With his fundamental work on the interpreta-tion of dreams Ole Vedfelt argues against the conflicts between the different schools of psychoana-ly-sis. By ADELBERT REIF

Many dreams are told to the analyti-cal therapist every day. But also outsi-de the circles of pati-ents and their ana-lysts, great importance is ascribed to dreams. This strong inter-est in dream events is no modern pheno-me-non, but as old as the story of man-kind. Howe-ver, a sy-stematic, scientific dream research was not established until 1900, the year when Sig-mund Freud's epoch-making work "The Inter-pretation of Dreams" was published. Since then, an enormous amount of "dream literature" has been published all over the world, and there is no psychoa-nalytic school which has not developed its own dream theory and dream analy-sis. After Freud it was first and foremost Carl Gustav Jung and his school, the Swiss Dasein-analyst Med-ard Boss, as well as the Ame-rican Calvin Hall, di-rector of his own insti-tute for dream rese-arch in California, whose work is consi-dered to be seminal for the fast progress of dream research in the latest 50 years, and its high scientific level today. Unfortunately the personal and theoreti-cal-prac-tical rivalry among the represen-tatives of the different schools often goes so far that each of them are convinced that they can give the only correct and comprehen-si-ve explanation of dreams. As so often before in science, an inter-dis-ciplinary exchange among the dif-ferent theoretical and thera-peutic schools is missing. This is reflected in the litera-ture as well as in the practical work. In order to remedy this omission, at least on the infor-mative level, but with the additional goal of persuading the indivi-dual analytical schools to recon-sider the attitu-des thay have taken till now, the Danish psycho-therapist Ole Vedfelt, with his com-prehensive book "The Dimen-sions of Dre-ams" has created the basic work on the nature, func-tion, and inter-pretation of dreams, which scrutini-zes all important aspects of modern dream research. Although himself a Jungian analyst in his own prac-tice in Copenhagen, Vedfelt has no reser-vations to other psychoa-na-lytic schools. On the contrary, he is open to all possibili-ties that can help us to under-stand dreams better. His work rests on the insight that totally "different met-hods of interpre-tation can be used on the same dream in a mea-ning-ful and fruit-ful combina-tion, so that a multidimen-sional inter-pretation seems rele-vant", as Vedfelt writes in his fore-word. His enor-mously broad-spectred thera-peutic back-ground and his 25 years of experi-ence with dreams - Vedfelt worked with ap-proxi-mately 15000 dreams from 150 to 200 persons - turn out to be an outstan-ding basis for his concept of multi-dimensional dream inter-pretations. This is also true of Vedfelt's prevailing inter-est in the question of "how the wor-king met-hods of the different schools can com-ple-ment and support each other". His goal is "to bring forth a creative synthesis of the materi-al pre-sented and to in-vestigate whet-her the many points of view can be arranged in a pattern that gives a more complete picture of the potenti-als of dre-ams than we have hit-her-to seen". With almost encyclo-pa-edic care Ole Vedfelt descri-bes the dif-ferent dream theori-es, dream analy-ses and dream work of all impor-tant schools and trends, keeping the historical achieve-ments of dre-am research within its own conceptional system. He thus succeeds in descri-bing their theories and methods with unusual clarity, but Vedfelt's rese-arch focus also includes the relations between dream and body, dream and parap-sychological phenome-na, dream and me-ditation, dream and birth experi-en-ce, dream and consciousness ex-pan-ding techniques, dream and psychosis, as well as studies of group phenome-na and sociologi-cal aspects of dreams. ..... In the last part of the book Ole Vedfelt finally turns to the "multidimen-sional dream inter-preta-tion", to his major con-cern. Taking as a starting point "that dreams and the symbols supply us with information that cognitively/in-tellectualy as well emo-tional-ly-/energetically is very con-densed, and that certain skills inher-ent in the state of cons-ciousness in which the dream pro-cess takes place, make this conden-sation possible", Ved-felt argues for a synthe-sis of all the standpoints presented. Even in former times, the author argues, the great dream theorists were often forced in their prac-tical examples to "go beyond the limits of their own theories, as it appe-ars from their own w-orks". And this is even more the case when it comes to the practical therapeutic situa-tion,-where the flexibility concerning theory and method may be even greater. It should therefore not be too difficult for the different analytical schools to give their consent to a "creative synthe-sis". For: Firstly the var-ious methods of interpreta-tion can be regarded as dif-ferent fishing tackles which make different catches possible. Se-condly it is much more sure that you get better re-sults if you take the position that the different methods of inter-pretation of work represent different per-spec-tives through which we can perceive a multi-dimensio-nal experiental universe. It is important for the author that dream is on a level with the state of develop-ment of mo-dern science, i.e. gives up the traditional frag-mentary world picture and turns to a "holistic view of the world as one large living organism of which dif-ferent levels are interacting - from inor-ganic matter or bi-ological structures to the human psyche and society, to the biosphere and the total cos-mos". For modern dream research, which so far has been inclined to put too much stress on differen-ces and resist syn-theses, there-fore, a corollary is a responsi-bility to adopt an "integra-ting view and method" in order to put an end to the "fragmenta-tion of life". Ole Vedfelt's book "The Dimensions of Dre-ams" with its wealth of dream ma-terial and excellent examples from the theory and practice of the different scho-ols must be considered to be the best general introduc-tion to this fascina-ting subject today.

As co-founder of the C.G. Jung Institute, Copenhagen, and as author of several psychological books, Ole Vedfelt has played an important role in establishing Jungian psychology in Denmark. He has received a great deal of recognition in both professional circles and in general cultural debate for, among other things, his original work on male psychology seen from a Jungian perspective and his extensive study on Consciousness.

"The Dimensions of Dreams", which is the first of his books to be published in English, represents a key factor in his efforts to bridge the gap between Jungian psychology and other schools of psychotherapy.

On more than 400 pages Vedfelt gives the reader a thorough and inspired study of all the important dream-theories. Being a Jungian Analyst, the Jungian theory is obviously closest to Vedfelt's heart, but I would not call the book a "Jungian Study" - rather a critical eclectic study of the different theoretical schools with the main focus directed towards the Jungian field. Although the Jungian chapter is the longest, the other theoretical schools are reviewed extensively and the advantages and disadvantages of each of them are thoroughly scrutinized. Vedfelt has systematically analysed the different dream theories - the analysis comprises both the philosophical assumptions as well as their empirical basis - and he illustrates the theories by a great number of dream-examples and their interpretation.

The book begins with a Freudian chapter where Vedfelt explains, illustrates and discusses concepts such as free-association method, dream censorship, dream sources, the Freudian technique of dream interpretation etc. The original Freud is followed by the neo-Freudians with the focus slightly changing from the unconscious towards the ego and its defence-mechanisms. By reviewing concepts such as dreams and transference / countertransference, developmental theories etc., Vedfelt presents work by psychoanalysts including Masud Khan, Heinz Kohut, Erik H. Erikson and many others.

The Jungian chapter that follows is - as mentioned above- with its almost 100 pages the longest. In this Vedfelt goes through our well-known analytical basis such as the nature of dreams, the living symbol, archetypes in dreams, individuation, alchemy etc. Dreams mentioned and interpreted mainly by Jung himself illustrate the concepts. Vedfelt refers to Andrew Samuels' Jung and the Post-Jungians and uses Samuels' division of Jung's successors into the Classical, the Developmental and the Archetypal school. The Classical section of the chapter has a long inspiring review of Sheila Moon's published dreams to illustrate how dreams express the personal myth, followed by other concepts such as dreams of call, dream and death and problem solving and creativity in dreams. The Developmental section presents material from Erich Neumann and Hans Dieckmann and - very briefly - from Michael Fordham. In the last of the three sections, the Archetypal, Vedfelt in a few words sums up James Hillmann's interesting viewpoint that dreams should be seen primarily as a world in themselves, with their own objectives.

The second chapter ends with a very interesting comparison between Freud's and Jung's dream theories. The comparison contains thought-provoking statements about the nature, function and interpretation of dreams seen from the two frames of reference.

In the following chapter "Dreams and Waking Lifestyle" the concrete and quantified analysis of dream-content as described mainly by Calvin Hall is discussed. In the preface Vedfelt writes about what can be achieved from this: "Through Hall we obtain important guidelines as to what dreams typically mean to all of us - women, men, children - and to the meaning of dreams that span the course of a life." Vedfelt's focus in the next chapter "Existential and Phenomenological Dream Interpretation" is mainly on the Swiss Psychoanalyst Medard Boss whose very gentle method of questioning is obviously successful with very fragile clients. Whereas Medard Boss sees dreams as "unlived possibilities", the founder of the fifth main current within modern dream research, Fritz Perls, sees them as a "condensed reflection of human existence". In the chapter "Experiental Dreamwork" Vedfelt presents Fritz Perls and Gestalt therapy followed by Psychodrama. The gestalt therapy method is vividly demonstrated by means of a practical example. The method being against interpretations, analysis and explanations but stressing the importance of learning through discovering, through expression of feelings, and through working with resistances. Perls has, with a transscription of Freud, said "that the dream is the royal road to integration." After presenting the five mainstream schools of dream-theory, Vedfelt turns towards biological laboratory research and dreams and the body. The chapters which follow deal with rather esoteric subjects in connection with dreams such as parapsychology, birth experience and consciousness-expanding techniques. And the last viewpoints to be presented are: Dream and Psychosis, Dream and Society, Dream and Groups and Dream and Picture Therapy.

Throughout the book, Vedfelt discusses and compares the different theories with each other. It is Vedfelt's aim - and one of the great advantages of this book - that the different points of view do not exclude each other. On the contrary, they can illuminate different aspects of the dream. This leads to Vedfelt's theory that dreams function in a multidimensional way and that a multidimensional approach to dream-interpretation can become "a creative unfolding of the dream's implicit dynamism and meaning".

I find Vedfelt's book very impressive and inspiring. In spite of it's high academic and theoretical content, the book is entertaining and a pleasure to read. Vedfelt has provided a powerful and important contribution to the study of the world of dreams.

Misser Berg, Jungian Analyst, Denmark

I like this book because it tells me all the facts about
the presidents and I love to study presidents. My 14 year
old sister needed help with her report on Theodore Roosevelt and
Franklin D. Roosevelt and she asked me because she knew I would
know some things! I have checked "Don't know much about the
Presidents" out of the library and since I have to take it back,
my dad said he would buy me my own copy to keep!

This book is a wonderful introduction to learning about the presidents, even for younger children who express an interest. Our five-year-old is a good reader, and can manage much of this book herself. A great one to keep in the back of the car for short (or long) trips. Or pick a president each night to learn about at bedtime. This book is written at a level that can be appreciated by the younger set, but because it's got a sense of humor and some fun facts about each president, will also be enjoyed by older children (and adults!). We're enjoying re-learning about the presidents again with our daughter!

Do you know who was the youngest president ever elected to office, who served the shortest term, and who served the longest? Do you know which president had fifteen children, which was an avid fisherman, and who brought a goose, wallaby, donkey, lion cub, raccoon, two cats, twelve dogs, and birds to the White House when he moved in? The answers to these questions and much, much more can be found in Kenneth Davis' marvelously entertaining and engaging, Don't Know Much About The Presidents. Written in an easy to read, question and answer, conversational format, Mr Davis packs this book chock full of historical information, fun facts, and trivia. Learn about each of our 43 president's talents, idiosyncracies and family, his inauguration, important achievements, and life in the White House during the time he served. Each biographical spread is complemented by Pedro Martin's charmingly witty and humorous illustrations that enhance the text and just add to all the fun. With a detailed timeline highlighting important and interesting historical events running continuously along the bottom of each page, Don't Know Much About The Presidents is a treasure trove of fun and information that's perfect for kids 8 and up. So find out which president's good luck charm was a red carnation, and enjoy!

Number theory, one of the last bastions of pure mathematics, has now succumbed to the vice of having applications. And one of those applications provides the security that maintains the integrity of most major financial transactions. Therefore, it is time for the textbooks on beginning number theory to reflect the changing environment.
The material in this work is standard fare, so the emphasis here will be on the applications, as that is what makes the book stand out. The chapter devoted to applications of congruences explains divisibility tests, perpetual calendars, scheduling round-robin tournaments, computer file storage, and error checking. A chapter on cryptology takes one from the simple substitution cipher on to public key ciphers. Another hot topic introduced is the idea of the zero-knowledge proof, where a person can prove that they have a proof, without revealing significant details. Like the "pure" material, this is presented in a clean, easy-to-follow framework. Each section ends with two sets of exercises, one to do by hand and the other a set of programming projects. The exercises are generally routine, but some of the programming problems will be beyond the capability of most. The answers to the odd non-programming exercises are given at the end of the book.
With approximately one-eighth devoted to applications, this book is on the crest of the wave of changes taking place in number theory. It is the best text for this material that I have ever seen.

Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.

The book starts out as though you were a Freshman or a Sophomore, when your not. It's been about 17 years since I had fun with "Linear Algebra". A -fun- read for a nerd, I guess, or others that enjoy Mathematical expantion.

I'm impressed with how modern and interesting this book makes number theory seem. I've always liked this subject, but I've found the other texts out either too old-fashioned, boring, or too sophisticated. This book hits the mark. Highly recommended for the number theory enthusiast like me!

This book has to be the best or most important book of all written from Hagin. To sum it up in a few words, if you do not know who you are in Christ, this book will point to the scriptures affirming your identity in Christ. It shows where in the scriptures, we can find reference to what we have through Jesus, who we are, and where we stand with Him. This book is must, if you want to be success for God. Warning, the references will lead you to do a lot of homework after you read it, so its not for the lazy or the "read once" crowd.

One of the best readings I have ever read. I wanted to buy one for all my friends who are having any sort of struggles. The book gives many scriptures to prove our place in Christ and to confess for our victory.

A book for anyone that is stuggling to know who they are in The Anointed and His Anointing will find themselves walking in a new dimension of a Word filled and anointed life by applying the principles laid out in this book With good practical outlines of scripture and as well as a confession for the Word when mixed with a hungry heart this book can change your life. The book is small enough to brimg with you and give you medtaions that will explode from within and change you, change circumstances and change life the way you know it. Bryan Murphy

This prayer book is the best all around prayer book for daily personal (or even family)use. The Scriptures are addressed back to God and arranged by category (with direction to add certain categories of requests inbetween the sections). This adds structure to ones prayer life and breaks the monotony of "grocery list" praying. This one is a little longer than, "Praying the Scriptures for Spiritual Growth" or the "Simple Prayers" books; in my own personal devotions, it takes me about 7 minutes per daily prayer segment.

Boa has written several prayer books, all great, all solid. This is my favorite to date.

Many times when we pray we don't know where to get started, what to do, many times we just want a deeper prayer life.

This book will scripturally guide you through praying...not only the scriptures, but will guide you in praying for your world around you. It begins with praise and worship of Almighty God, leads you in a confession of Who He is, then guides you through personal renewal, petitions, intercession, and then a prayer of thanksgiving.

One of the things I liked best about this book was that it started out with each section, declaring the Word of God, then it guides you (differently each day) to pray for your leaders one day, your family the next, that you will be a faithful steward of your time and money, for God's wisdom...the list goes on and on.

Both this book and "Praying the Scriptures for Spiritual Growth" are two of the best prayer/devotional books I have ever used. If I could only keep two, these would be the two I would keep. Not only are they easy to follow, they are taken directly from the Word of God.

Face to Face is a wonderful tool to help you pray. Boa has assembled scripture into eight sections for each day. You pray through scripture for Adoration, Confession, Renewal, Petition, Intercession, Affirmation, Thanksgiving and Closing. It helps you focus and it gives a marvelous sense of the completeness of God's word. I do not recommend very many books but this is one that I would recommend to anyone. I have already given away 20 copies.

What kind of man, at 45 years of age, slogs 60 kilometres through a Canadian January to give a lecture on icebergs?

The Victorian era has endured much hostile press in recent years. Cultural mores have been challenged, essential ideas decried as "social artefacts" and the reputations of heroic idols, nearly universally male, demolished as shams. It's become a novelty to encounter the celebratory resurrection of a forgotten icon. McGoogan relates the life and accomplishments of Scotsman John Rae, who joined a Hudson's Bay Company ship as surgeon, travelled to Canada in 1833 and remained for twelve years - on the first stay. McGoogan has surveyed many of the resources dealing with Arctic exploration, but Rae's own accounts provide the essential framework for this compelling narrative. The book is nearly two stories in one: Rae's ranging explorations along the Canadian Arctic coast, and the mysterious disappearance of the John Franklin expedition. McGoogan keeps this paired account nicely balanced until they merge to determine Rae's future reputation.

John Rae was a departure from the usual explorer of the Victorian age. Instead of heading complex expeditions, he travelled with a small support group. Instead of ships or extensive caravans, he travelled by canoe or small boat, on land using snowshoes. He was extraordinarily hardy, traversing extensive distances, often alone. He adapted many features of Aboriginal life in his travels when "going native" was disdained by most. He kept his associates fed when other British explorers were starving on government rations. He found the route of the elusive Northwest passage and determined the fate of the lost Franklin expedition seeking that route. Later, he turned from Arctic adventures to the survey of a telegraph line site across the Rocky Mountains. Why have we heard so little of him?

According to McGoogan, one individual maintained a steady campaign to reduce Rae's reputation. Jane Franklin, Sir John's quasi-widow [she refused to admit her husband's death for years], irked by the possibility her husband had turned to cannibalism in extremity, actively challenged many of Rae's accomplishments. She fostered Leopold McClintock as the verifier of Sir John's finding of the Northwest Passage. In her zeal, she even managed to secure the aid of no less a figure than Charles Dickens to her cause. McGoogan contends Dickens' virulent racism aided this assault when the novelist asserted the Inuit were consummate liars and the true cannibals. In the event, John Rae stands out as the only explorer of note that failed to achieve knighthood for his achievements.

McGoogan has produced a noteworthy study, done with lively wit and solid research. This book restores John Rae's position as the true finder of the Northwest Passage and as man with few peers. This book can be read by anyone seeking knowledge of the North or as a model of perseverance and sacrifice. Illustrated with photographs and engravings and including a fine bibliography, this is a real treasure to read and possess.

I bought this book to learn more about John Rae himself. In the history of arctic and antarctic travel and exploration, Rae was unequalled in his ability to travel lightly and quickly. He covered unheard of amounts of ground in short time. On snow shoes he was without peer. He shot game as he went. He could stand huge amounts of fatigue. Amundsen might come the closest for swift and efficient movement but he mostly travelled with skis and with dogs. Rae was mostly on foot, or canoe, where he also was without peer. On one long journey he actually gained weight. He was one of the few who understood the eskimo or inuit and spoke favorably of them which earned him the scorn of his peers and the leading snobbery in England. Yet his peers didn't live with the eskimo as Rae had and did. History has proven Rae honest and accurate in his portrayal of the eskimo and of his reports of cannibalism among the Franklin Expedition. Because he refused to recant this tale of cannibalism (The eskimo had told him this and he knew them to be truthful and stood up for them) he was ostrasized and critisized and lost a knighthood. He stuck with the truth and his principles. Further explorations and discoveries have proven him to be correct. This was a man sans pareil when it came to back country traveling and exploring. A man of integrity and honesty. You don't hear much about such heros. Instead, you hear of so called "heros" among the inept and...Scott of the Antarctic. This book will introduce you to Rae and his explorations and discoveries. I also highly recommend "The Last Place on Earth" by Huntford (about race to the South Pole--shows the stupidity of Scott and genius but flaws of Amundsen) and "Arctic Grail" by Berton (Arctic Exploration).

McGoogan has written an excellent biography of John Rae that conveys not only the struggles that the explorer went through to find the ill-fated Franklin expedition, but also the scientific banishment that he suffered when he reported the bizarre circumstances of their deaths.
Rae was a doctor employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. The HBC had been set up to exploit the vast fur trade in Canada, and had outposts across the North. Rae, an outdoorsman and naturalist, was commissioned to explore the shores of the vast Arctic waters, searching for the last, elusive connection that would allow sailing ships to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
Many explorers had gone before Rae. One expedition, headed by Sir John Franklin, had disappeared without a trace in the 1840s. Several search parties subsequently failed to find the explorer and his crew.
Finally, Rae was asked to search for the party. He set out, not with a large crew and ships, but with a small number of natives and Europeans experienced in traveling in the frozen North. After several years, in which Rae found the last remaining link in the Northwest Passage, he finally uncovered the fate of the Franklin Expedition; the boats had foundered in the ice, and the crew had starved to death while marching south.
Rae also uncovered evidence of cannibalism. In their last efforts to remain alive, the crewmen had consumed their dead companions. Rae, in his report, duly noted this observation.

Unfortunately, this was to be his undoing. Led by Franklin's widow, Lady Jane, Rae was ostracized from the Royal Geographical Society and his epic discovery of the final link in the Northwest Passage disparaged. For over a century, his achievements languished in the footnotes of history.
McGoogan set out to rectify Rae's tarnished image. Using research from Rae's extensive notes, as well as primary sources from a multitude of independent sources, he has carefully constructed a description of Rae's achievements, as well as the denunciations that robbed him of his rightful place in history.
As an homage, the author journeyed to the Arctic and placed a memorial at the final discovered link in the Northwest Passage, now officially recognized as Rae Strait.