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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $15.92
Author: Anthony Brandt
Manufacturer: Knopf
ISBN13: 9780307263926
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over northern Canada. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of channels, sounds, and icy seas with two ships and 128 officers and men.
In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is the focus of the book but it covers all the major expeditions and a number of fascinating characters, including Franklin’s extraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history that captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.
Northwest Passage, 2 DVD Set (Original TV Series)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $9.98
Manufacturer: Timeless Media Group
UPC: 011301657237
This color adventure series features Keith Larsen and Buddy Ebsen as Rogers Rangers in the French and Indian war. Ten episodes: Surprise Attack, Break Out, The Hostage, Vengeance Trail, The "Vulture", The Counterfeiters, The Secret of the Cliff, Death Rides the Wind, The Witch and Stab in the Back.
Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $14.21
Author: William Dietrich
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
Part history, part sociology, part travelogue, and part journalistic account of a contemporary crisis, this sweeping portrait of the powerful, beautiful Columbia River explores how people changed the river and were in turn changed by it. 3 maps; index.
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Average Rating: 5.0
Price: $13.57
Author: James Delgado
Manufacturer: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN13: 9781553651598
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Northwest Passage - Volumes 1 & 2 (2-DVD)
Price: $12.99
Manufacturer: Alpha Home Entertainment
UPC: 089218955999
8 episodes on 2 DVDs from the classic ""Northwest Passage"" television series.
Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Average Rating: 5.0
Price: $19.22
Author: Glyn Williams
Manufacturer: University of California Press
ISBN13: 9780520266278
Condition: NEW
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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. While global warming has brought several such routes into existence, 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. In Arctic Labyrinth, 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. Williams's thrilling narrative delves into private letters and journals to expose the gritty reality behind the often self-serving accounts of those in charge. An important work of maritime history and exploration--and as exciting a tale of heroism and fortitude as readers will find--Arctic Labyrinth is also a remarkable study in human delusion.