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03938cam a2200409 a 4500 001 6BB495F440C011DF814D4D3DA8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20230408010049 008 090827r20102009cauabf b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2009035546 020 $a 0520266277 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780520266278 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)435628953 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BWX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d EXW $d CDX $d YAM $d MOF $d B@L $d ABG $d BUP $d SILO 050 00 $a G640 $b .W49 2010 100 1 $a Williams, Glyndwr. 245 1 $a Arctic labyrinth : $b the quest for the Northwest Passage / $c Glyn Williams. 250 $a 1st University of California Press ed. 260 $a Berkeley : $b University of California Press, $c 2010. 300 $a xix, 439 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-413) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue : 'There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable' -- 'All is not golde that glistereth' : the expeditions of Martin Frobisher -- 'The passage ismost probable'; 'there is no passage nor hope of passage' : the views of John Davis and William Baffin -- 'A sea to the westward' : the discovery of Hudson Bay -- 'To seek a needle in a bottle of hay' : the rival voyages of Luke Foxe and Thomas James -- 'Northward to find out the Straits if Anian' : the tragic voyage of James Knight -- 'The maritime philosophers stone' : the vision of Arthur Dobbs -- 'I left the print of my feet in blood' : Samuel Hearne and the speculative geographers -- 'No information could be had from maps' : James Cook's final voage -- 'Insults in the name of science to modern navigation' : fantasy voyages through the Northwest Passage -- 'Our prospects were truly exhilarating' : the gateway of Lancaster Sound -- 'The man who ate his boots' : John Franklin goes overland -- 'This set us all castle-building' : the later voyages of Edward Parry -- 'The very borders of the grave' : the ordeal of the Rosses -- 'To fill up the small blank on the northern charts' : the explorations of Back, Dease and Simpson -- 'So little now remains to be done' : the last voyage of John Franklin -- 'Franklin's winter quarters!' : clues on the ice -- 'The Northwest Passage discovered!' : the Pacific approach of McClure and Collinson -- 'A thorough downright catastrophe' : the search expedition of Edward Belcher -- 'They fell down and died as they walked' : the fate of Franklin's crews -- 'My dream since childhood' : Roald Amundsen and the passage -- 'I felt that I was on hallowed ground' : the voyages of Henry Larsen -- Epilogue : the Northwest Passage and climate change. 520 $a 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. 651 0 $a Northwest Passage $x Discovery and exploration. 651 0 $a Northwest Passage $x Description and travel. 941 $a 8 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724065710.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214031912.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909022333.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006053420.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20140619015322.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20120410010704.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20100624010907.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20100619012100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6BB495F440C011DF814D4D3DA8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search