With Lady Franklin's Revenge, bestselling author Ken McGoogan (Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner) delivers another page turning biography that brings a remarkable historical figure vividly to life.Denied a role in Victorian England's male-dominated society, Jane Franklin(1791-1875) took her revenge by seizing control of that most masculine of pursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping its history to her own ends. Arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century, Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile,climbed mountains in Africa and the Holy Land, and, wearing petticoats, beat her way through the Tasmanian bush. When Sir John Franklin, her husband, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, she orchestrated an unprecedented 12-year search, contributing more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer. Having failed to rescue the hapless Franklin, she turned failure into triumph by creating a legend. Richly detailed, panoramic in scope, this biography of the unforgettable Jane Franklin is destined to become a classic.

Includes index. "A Phyllis Bruce Book".