The Quest For The Northwest Passage

Author : James Delgado
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926706535

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Across the Top of the World by James Delgado Pdf

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.

Author : Frédéric Regard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321552

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The Quest for the Northwest Passage by Frédéric Regard Pdf

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

Author : Glyn Williams,Sophia Costley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520269958

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Arctic Labyrinth by Glyn Williams,Sophia Costley Pdf

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.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673624

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The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton Pdf

Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ruthless Robert Peary and the cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He also credits the Inuit, whose tracking and hunting skills saved the lives of the adventurers and their men countless times. These quests are peopled with remarkable figures full of passion and eccentricity. They include Charles Hall, an obscure printer who abandoned family and business to head to a frozen world of which he knew nothing; John Ross, whose naval career ended when he spotted a range of mountains that didn't exist; Frederick Cook, who faked reaching the North Pole; and Jane Franklin, who forced an expensive search for her missing husband upon a reluctant British government. Pierre Berton, who won his first Governor General's award for The Mysterious North, here again gives us an important and fascinating history that reads like a novel as he examines the historic events of the golden age of Arctic exploration.

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300098669

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Voyages of Delusion by Glyndwr Williams Pdf

Describes the expeditions embarked upon by sailors and speculators to navigate the Northwest Passage during the Age of Reason in the eighteenth century.

Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307276568

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The Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony Brandt Pdf

After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Northwest Passage
ISBN : 0714127353

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Across the Top of the World by James P. Delgado Pdf

This text presents a comprehensive view of the centuries-long quest for the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route through the Arctic linking Europe with Asia.

Author : Edward Struzik,Mike Beedell
Publisher : London : Blandford
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Arctic regions Discovery and exploration
ISBN : 0713722460

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The Northwest Passage by Edward Struzik,Mike Beedell Pdf

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771023965

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Disappointment River by Brian Castner Pdf

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey—in search of Mackenzie's Passage 200 years later. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels in an 1,125-mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that has the potential of becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.

Author : L.D. Cross
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1552774325

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The Quest for the Northwest Passage by L.D. Cross Pdf

For centuries, Europeans sought the elusive Northwest Passage that would link Europe to the Far East and China. Early visitors to Canada's northern coasts included Viking sailors and Basque whalers. Then came the prominent explorers -- John Cabot, Vasco da Gama, Martin Frobisher and Sir John Franklin. Now that global warming threatens to melt much of the Arctic ice cap, conflict over the Northwest Passage and the resource riches of the Arctic is intensifying.

Author : James Barnett,David Nicandri
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772030617

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Arctic Ambitions by James Barnett,David Nicandri Pdf

While dreams of a passage proved illusory, Captain James Cook's journey produced some of the finest charts, collections, and anthropological observations of his career. It also helped establish British relations with Russia and opened the door to the hugely influential maritime fur trade. This collection of essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars - including former Vancouver Maritime Museum executive director James P. Delgado and University of Alberta historian I.S. MacLaren - uses artifacts, charts, and records of the encounters between Native peoples and explorers to tell the story of this remarkable voyage.

Author : Stan Rogers
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554984039

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Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers Pdf

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences. For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route through Canada's northern waters to the Pacific Ocean and Asia. Others attempted to find a land route. Many hundreds of men perished in the attempt, until finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the voyage by ship. Today global warming has brought interest in the passage back to a fever pitch as nations contend with each other over its control and future uses. The historic search inspired Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers to write "Northwest Passage", a song that has become a widely known favorite since its 1981 release. It describes Stan's own journey overland as he contemplates the arduous journeys of some of the explorers, including Kelsey, Mackenzie, Thompson and especially Franklin. The song is moving and haunting, a paean to the adventurous spirit of the explorers and to the beauty of the vast land and icy seas. The lyrics are accompanied by the striking paintings of multiple award-winning artist Matt James. Matt brings a unique vision to the song and the history behind it, providing commentary on the Franklin expedition and its failure to heed the wisdom of Inuit living in the North. The book also contains the music for the song (as well as a final verse that was never recorded), maps, a timeline of Arctic exploration, mini-biographies and portraits of the principal explorers, and suggestions for further reading. Following on the success of Canadian Railroad Trilogy, this is another beautiful book in which a memorable song illuminates a fascinating history that has taken on new resonance today.

Author : Frédéric Regard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321521

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Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century by Frédéric Regard Pdf

Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443107945

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Graves of Ice by John Wilson Pdf

A dramatic Arctic adventure set during Sir John Franklin's doomed search for the Northwest Passage George Chambers is a fourteen-year-old aboard HMS Erebus, one of two ships under the command of Sir John Franklin on his quest to discover the Northwest Passage. But when the Erebus and Terror are trapped in crushing ice, 129 men of the crew die from cold, scurvy, and starvation. Only two remain alive when George begins to recount his story: himself and Commander James Fitzjames. As his strength dwindles and starvation weakens him, George recalls the events that led him to Canada's desolate North, and the expedition's failure -- including gravediggers, a close call with a polar bear, standing up against sailors threatening mutiny, and his own impending death. George does not know whether the story he tells will be all that survives of Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition.

Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024773718

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Northwest Passage by Edward Struzik Pdf

Chronicles the successes and failures of legendary explorers, including Martin Frobisher, John Davis, William Edward Parry and John Franklin. Includes maps, archival prints and photographs, and colour photographs giving a contemporary view of the region's wildlife, landscape and people.