John Walker's Passage

by Darrell Varga

Book Overview

John Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and important documentary filmmakers and is known for his many thoughtful, personally inflected films. His masterwork, Passage, centres on Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the final link of the Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Canadian Arctic. It also gives us the story of John Rae, the Scottish explorer who discovered the fate of Franklin and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442614196
• ISBN13: 9781442614192
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.6"