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Northwest Passage

Author : Stan Rogers
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554984033
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Passage written by Stan Rogers and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The North-West Passage by land

Author : William Wentworth Fitzwilliam of Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The North-West Passage by land written by William Wentworth Fitzwilliam of Milton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Across the Top of the World

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781553651598
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by James P. Delgado and published by Douglas & McIntyre Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Top of the World is a tale that rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama and tragedy. In the great age of Exploration, the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage lured bold adventurers to the icy Arctic. They risked and sometimes lost their lives in search of a sea route across the top of the world, connecting Europe with Asia and its riches. This spellbinding saga of Arctic exploration is brought to life by quotations from grim first-hand accounts and by dramatic images, ICC colour and 100 black and white. These 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. Landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. The Inuit, the native people of the Arctic, lived in isolation until Europeans began to arrive in the sixteenth century, and relations were not always cordial. For centuries, nations sent out expedition after expedition to search for the Northwest Passage, each one suffering extreme hardship. The most tragic was the mysterious loss of Sir John Franklin, his 128 men and two ships in the 1840s. Attempts to sail the dangerous, icy maze of the passage ended in defeat until Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen succeeded in 1903-1906. Then, in the 1940s, to assert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, St. Koch, became the second vessel to conquer the passage. This set the stage for the modern phase of Arctic exploration utilizing icebreakers and American nuclear-powered submarines. James Delgado writes with the passion and authority of an underwater archaeologist and historian who has taken part in Arctic expeditions.

The North-West Passage by Land. Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Etc

Author : William FITZWILLIAM (Viscount Milton and CHEADLE (Walter Butler))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The North-West Passage by Land. Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Etc written by William FITZWILLIAM (Viscount Milton and CHEADLE (Walter Butler)) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Northwest Passage

Author : Kenneth Roberts
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 147334719X
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Passage written by Kenneth Roberts and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and fast paced adventure story based in colonial America. Written from the viewpoint of a fictional friend of the Historic Robert Rodgers, famed in America as the leader of 'Rodgers' Rangers' a guerrilla squadron harassing the English forces throughout the American War of Independence. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Arctic Labyrinth

Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269950
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Labyrinth written by Glyn Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rowing the Northwest Passage

Author : Kevin Vallely
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771641355
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Rowing the Northwest Passage written by Kevin Vallely and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vallely transports the reader to places few will ever go: the very edges of the earth and of human endurance." —Evan Solomon In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change. Along the way, the team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity and unpredictability and bears witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from climate change deniers who have taken to social media to attack them and undermine their efforts.

The North-west Passage by Land

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)

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Writing Geographical Exploration

Author : Wayne Kenneth David Davies
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380629
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Writing Geographical Exploration written by Wayne Kenneth David Davies and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His tale of adventure should occupy a more prominent place in the study of exploration, literature and history, not only in Canada, but also in his homeland of Wales."--Jacket.

Arctic Ambitions

Author : James K. Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295993997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Ambitions written by James K. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue : Three Comments on Cook's Third Voyage / Nicholas ThomasJames Cook, Navigator and Explorer : The Pacific Experience, 1768-1776 / John GascoigneJames Cook and the Northwest Passage : Approaching the Third Voyage / Glyn WilliamsSetting the Stage : Spain in the Pacific and the Northern Voyages of the 1770s / Iris EngstrandFrom Russia with Charts : Cook and the Russians in the North Pacific / Evguenia AnichtchenkoJames Cook and the New Navigation / Richard DunnA New Look at Cook : Reflections on Sand, Ice, and His Diligent Voyage to the Arctic Ocean / David L. NicandriEncounters : View of the Indigenous People of Nootka Sound from the Cook Expedition Records / Richard InglisThe Cook Expedition and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska / Aron L. CrowellGifting, Trading, Selling, Buying : Following Northwest Coast Treasures Acquired on Cook's Third Voyage to Collections around the World / Adrienne L. KaepplerThe International Law of Discovery : Acts of Possession on the Northwest Coast of North America / Robert J. MillerCook on the Coasts of the North Pacific and Arctic America : The Cartographic Achievement / John RobsonNarrating an Alaskan Cruise : Aspects of Cook's Journal (1778) and Douglas?s Edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784) / I.S. MacLarenThe End of the Northern Mystery : George Vancouver's Survey of the Northwest Coast / James K. BarnettFrom Discoveries to Sovereignties : The Imperial Scramble for Northwestern North America / Barry GoughThe Continuing Quest : The Lure of the Northwest Passage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James P. DelgadoSea Ice in the Western Portal of the Northwest Passage from 1778 to the Twenty-first Century / Harry SternMarine Navigation in the Arctic Ocean and the Northwest Passage / Lawson W. BrighamThe Arctic in Focus : National Interests and International Cooperation / Gudrun Bucher and Robin Inglis.

The New Northwest Passage

Author : Cameron Dueck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926531366
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The New Northwest Passage written by Cameron Dueck and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their voyage from Victoria to Halifax carried them through raging storms and mechanical breakdowns and took them into sea ice that threatened to crush their hull. But more importantly it brought them face to face with modern Arctic life in tiny, isolated Inuit communities where the challenge of climate change is added to the already crushing load of social and economic woes.

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Frédéric Regard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321529
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century written by Frédéric Regard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Lines in the Ice

Author : Philip J. Hatfield
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773599878
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Lines in the Ice written by Philip J. Hatfield and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014 discovery of HMS Erebus - a ship lost during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage - reignited popular, economic, and political interest in the Arctic’s exploration, history, anthropology, and historical geography. Lines in the Ice investigates the allure of the North through topographical views, maps, explorers’ diaries, and historic photographs. Following the course of major journeys to the Arctic, including those of Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, and John Franklin, Philip Hatfield assesses the impact of these incursions on the North’s numerous indigenous communities and reveals the role of exploration in making the modern world. Besides detailing the area’s vivid history, Lines in the Ice also focuses on beautiful works created over the last 500 years by people who live and travel in the Arctic. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of items rarely seen outside of the British Library, this volume meditates on humans’ relationships with the Arctic at a time when climate change poses a catastrophic threat to the peoples and ecosystems of this enigmatic region. A timely work that traces the past’s influence on the present day, Lines in the Ice showcases the rich visual history of Arctic exploration, indigenous cultural works, and the longstanding ways in which the North has captivated the public.

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22

Author : John Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man who Ate His Boots

Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224082310
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Ate His Boots written by Anthony Brandt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Arctic Crossing

Author : Jonathan Waterman
Publisher : New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Crossing written by Jonathan Waterman and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic—with its twenty-four-hour daylight, surprisingly curious animals and inexplicable humming noises—is a world of constant danger and limitless possibility. This unforgiving landscape is home to the Inuit (the name they prefer to “Eskimos”), whose complex and little-studied society is fascinating in its divergence from as well as its assimilation into Western culture. Jonathan Waterman’s 2,200-mile journey across the roof of North America took him through Inuit communities in Alaska to Nunavut, Canada’s new, 770,000-square-mile, self-governed territory. His story, at once illuminating and alarming, offers firsthand observations of their life, language and beliefs; records their reactions to global modernization; documents their centuries of unjust treatment at the hands of Kabloona (bushy-eyebrowed whites); and witnesses unemployment, teen suicide and such persistent plagues as spousal violence and substance abuse. From the perspective of his 1997–1999 voyage—as the Inuit stand on the brink of a more hopeful, independent future—he also looks into a past marked by famous (or infamous) Arctic explorers, government cover-ups and environmental destruction. This beautifully written work of intrepid reporting and even scholarship also reveals the physical risks and psychological perils of crossing the legendary Northwest Passage. Utterly alone for weeks at a time, Waterman struggles against freezing conditions, the tricks played on him by his own mind and dangers more complex than aggressive bears, stormy seas and mosquito blizzards. Following the advice of an Inuit shaman, who said that “those things hidden from others” are discovered only “far from the dwellings of men, through privation and suffering,” Waterman kayaks, skis, dogsleds and sails across the Great Solitudes in a thrilling and ultimately successful quest for this “true wisdom,” arriving at a profound understanding of environment and culture.

Passage to Juneau

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797260
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Passage to Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.