Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. Glyn Williams

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage



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Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Glyn Williams ebook
Publisher: University of California Press
Page: 462
ISBN: 9780520266278

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 ...

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