Author: J. Lewis Robinson
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages :
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Conquest of the Northwest Passage by R.C.M.P. schooner "St
Author: J. Lewis Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages :
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Conquest of the Northwest Passage by R.C.M.P. Schooner St. Roch
Author: John Lewis Robinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
CONQUEST OF THIS NORTHWEST PASSAGES BY RCMP SCHOONER "ST. ROCH".
Author: J. LEWIS. ROBINSON
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Languages : en
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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage
Author: Alan Day
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086519X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086519X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Arctic Workhorse
Author: James P. Delgado
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Dodging between the Arctic floes, almost crushed several times, the little RCMP vessel St. Rochwas the first ship to conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage from west to east. Two years later, in 1944, she did it from east to west. Arctic Workhorseis a biography of St. Roch, from her construction in Vancouver in 1928, through her working life and famous voyages, to her resting place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Dodging between the Arctic floes, almost crushed several times, the little RCMP vessel St. Rochwas the first ship to conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage from west to east. Two years later, in 1944, she did it from east to west. Arctic Workhorseis a biography of St. Roch, from her construction in Vancouver in 1928, through her working life and famous voyages, to her resting place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Conquest of the Northewest Passage by R.C.M.P. Schooner St. Roch
Author: John Lewis Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845
Author: Stephen Zorn
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.
Dangerous Passage
Author: Gerard Kenney
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459711203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada's mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it could be used as an international shipping route? Two seagoing captains and their ships -- a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian birth, Henry Asbjorn Larsen -- answered that question in the first half of the 20th century. The first part of this book recounts their successful efforts. The second part addresses the many unsettling environmental and sovereignty issues concerning the future of the Northwest Passage in this time of melting ice caps, glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459711203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada's mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it could be used as an international shipping route? Two seagoing captains and their ships -- a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian birth, Henry Asbjorn Larsen -- answered that question in the first half of the 20th century. The first part of this book recounts their successful efforts. The second part addresses the many unsettling environmental and sovereignty issues concerning the future of the Northwest Passage in this time of melting ice caps, glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic.
Search for the Northwest Passage
Author: Alan Edwin Day
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
5160 entries organized chronologically by expedition, with sections on encyclopaedic works, maps, atlases, anthologies, biographies, etc.
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
5160 entries organized chronologically by expedition, with sections on encyclopaedic works, maps, atlases, anthologies, biographies, etc.
The Conquest of the Northwest Passage
Author: Harry Randall
Publisher:
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Accounts of attempts to cross the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean through the Bering Strait to the Pacific Ocean and of the successful voyage by Roald Amundsen in the ship Gj'p2(Ba 1903-1906.
Publisher:
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Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Accounts of attempts to cross the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean through the Bering Strait to the Pacific Ocean and of the successful voyage by Roald Amundsen in the ship Gj'p2(Ba 1903-1906.