Arctic labyrinth the quest for the Northwest Passage
The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. Until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice. Voyagers faced unimaginable horrors--en...
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Berkeley u.a.
Univ. of California Press
2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. Until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice. Voyagers faced unimaginable horrors--entire ships crushed, mass starvation, disabling frostbite, even cannibalism--in pursuit of a futile goal. Glyn Williams charts the entire sweep of this extraordinary history, from the tiny, woefully equipped vessels of the first Tudor expeditions to the twentieth-century ventures that finally opened the Passage. |
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| Beschreibung: | Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 439 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780520266278 978-0-520-26627-8 0520266277 0-520-26627-7 |