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The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage / Anthony Brandt.
LIBRA G640 .B73 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brandt, Anthony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explorers.
- History.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--History.
- Northwest Passage.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--History.
- Arctic regions.
- Explorers--Northwest Passage--History.
- Explorers--Arctic regions--History.
- Arctic Regions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 441 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- Summary:
- Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-418) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307263926
- 0307263924
- OCLC:
- 401141613
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