Arctic Labyrinth

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  • Arctic Labyrinth Book Detail

  • Author : Glyn Williams
  • Release Date : 2010-03
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 460
  • ISBN 13 : 0520269950
  • File Size : 35,35 MB

Arctic Labyrinth by Glyn Williams PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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