Mark's Reviews > Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece

Except for very little actual information linking Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner poem to the subject of the book, this is an interesting read. Samuel Hearne seems to have been an extraordinary and overlooked contributor to early European exploration of the North American Continent. But other than a few slight references to a poem of Colerdge's which preceded Ancient Mariner by a number of years, it's hard to make the exact connection. Read it more as a biography of Hearne than as a fan of Coleridge, and you probably won't be dissatisfied.