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• catalog abstract ""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 century was the passage finally traversed by ship." "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.".
• catalog alternative "Search for the Northwest Passage".
• catalog contributor b11175646.
• catalog coverage "Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration.".
• catalog coverage "Northwest Passage.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""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 century was the passage finally traversed by ship." "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.".
• catalog description "Elizabethan voyages -- Henry Hudson and William Baffin -- Hudson's Bay Company, James Cook and the Eighteenth Century -- Sir John Barrow and the revival of Arctic exploration in 1818 -- First expeditions of Parry and Franklin -- Franklin's second journey to the polar sea 1825-1827 -- Seaborne voyages of Parry, Beechey and Lyon -- John and James Clark Ross: four winters in the Arctic 1829-33 -- Dease and Simpson along the north coast of America 1836-39 -- Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48 -- Franklin search begins -- Search for Franklin from the Pacific -- Expeditions of Kennedy, Belcher, Inglefield and Kane 1851-1854 -- Discovery of the first relics 1853-1855 -- McClintock's successful search 1857-59 -- Last searches -- Navigation of the North West Passage.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-325) and index.".
• catalog extent "x, 342 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Search for the North West Passage.".
• catalog identifier "1861760590".
• catalog isFormatOf "Search for the North West Passage.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London : Chatham,".
• catalog relation "Search for the North West Passage.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest Passage.".
• catalog subject "910.916327 21".
• catalog subject "G640 .S38 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "Elizabethan voyages -- Henry Hudson and William Baffin -- Hudson's Bay Company, James Cook and the Eighteenth Century -- Sir John Barrow and the revival of Arctic exploration in 1818 -- First expeditions of Parry and Franklin -- Franklin's second journey to the polar sea 1825-1827 -- Seaborne voyages of Parry, Beechey and Lyon -- John and James Clark Ross: four winters in the Arctic 1829-33 -- Dease and Simpson along the north coast of America 1836-39 -- Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48 -- Franklin search begins -- Search for Franklin from the Pacific -- Expeditions of Kennedy, Belcher, Inglefield and Kane 1851-1854 -- Discovery of the first relics 1853-1855 -- McClintock's successful search 1857-59 -- Last searches -- Navigation of the North West Passage.".
• catalog title "Search for the Northwest Passage".
• catalog title "The search for the North West Passage / Ann Savours.".
• catalog type "text".