The Search for the North West Passage
by Ann Savours
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"The quest for a North West Passage through the Arctic seas to China and the riches of the Orient began as long ago as the sixteenth century when northern Europeans found the southern route around the Cape of Good Hope barred by the Spanish and Portuguese. It took a further 300 years, as well as the extraordinary bravery and resilience of the explorers, for this elusive route to be finally discovered by Franklin during his famous but ill-fated voyage in the 1840s. Not until the twentieth show more century was the passage finally traversed by ship."--BOOK JACKET. "The expeditions which headed north into the unknown wastes of the Arctic did so in defiance of terrible odds, and the names of those who led them - Frobisher, Cook, Hudson, Davis, Baffin, Parry, Ross and Franklin himself - are central to the mythology of European exploration. This new book tells the story of their remarkable feats and describes how the vast tracts of the ice-bound archipelago were slowly and painfully charted. It portrays the encounters with the Esquimaux and examines their vital help; it describes the boats and ships and the food and clothing on which the explorers depended as well as the alien habitat in which they found themselves."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Ann Savours Shirley was on the staff of the Scott Polar Research Institute from 1954 to 1966, and at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from 1970-1987. She was also Research and Displays Officer for 'Project Discovery', in connection with Captain Scott's famous ship.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Sir John Franklin; Martin Frobisher
- Important places
- Canadian Arctic; Canada; Northwest Passage
- Important events
- Search for the Northwest Passage; Franklin's Lost Expedition
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Travel, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 910.0916326 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel History, geographic treatment, biography Areas, regions, places in general
- LCC
- G640 .S38 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Arctic and Antarctic regions
- BISAC
Statistics
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- 47
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- (4.33)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
