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Language: en
Pages: 387
Authors: Glenn M. Stein
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-27 - Publisher: McFarland

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From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed
Roald Amundsen's
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Roald Amundsen
Categories: GJOEA (SHIP)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1908 - Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1908. E.P. Dutton

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Attempts to find the Northwest Passage--a water route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic archipelago north of the Canadian mainland--began as far back as th
Arctic Labyrinth
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Glyn Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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--obses
Voyages of Delusion
Language: en
Pages: 506
Authors: Glyndwr Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Describes the expeditions embarked upon by sailors and speculators to navigate the Northwest Passage during the Age of Reason in the eighteenth century.
Northwest Passage
Language: en
Pages: 58
Authors: Stan Rogers
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-26 - Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legenda