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The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage

Brandt, Anthony2010
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Brandt tells the 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
Main title:
The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage / by Anthony Brandt
Author:
Brandt, Anthony
Imprint:
New York Alfred A. Knopf 2010
Collation:
441 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
A Chronological List of Arctic Explorations, 1818-1880 -- I. A National Obsession: 1. The Croker Mountains -- 2. The Second Secretary -- 3. A Passage to India -- 4. An Object Peculiarly British -- II. Northern Gothic: 5. O Canada -- 6. Winter Lake -- 7. De quoi a manger -- 8. A Fine Romance -- III. An Education in Ice: 9. Five Thousand Pounds -- 10. Forever Frozen -- 11. Fury Beach -- 12. Fog -- IV. Prologue to Tragedy: 13. Warmer Waters -- 14. Boothia -- 15. The Question of Boothia -- 16. In Exile from the Land of Snows -- V. Toward No Earthly Pole: 17. The Glorious Departure -- 18. Arctic Maze -- 19. The Discovery of the Northwest Passage -- 20. The Last Dread Alternative -- Epilogue. The Hero
ISBN:
9780307263926;0307263924 (invalid)
Dewey class:
910.9163 MAN
Local class:
910.9163
Language:
English
Subject:
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and explorationExplorers -- Northwest Passage -- HistoryExplorers -- Arctic regions -- HistoryArctic regions -- Discovery and exploration
BRN:
104107
Bookmark link:
https://penrithcity.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=104107
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