Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
 Pincer movement: Writing about the search for the Northwest Passage seems almost as obsessive as the quest itself. Williams' entry in the growing stack of these works has the advantage of tight focus. He limits his survey to the 18th Century - [... more]
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Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Pincer movement: Writing about the search for the Northwest Passage seems almost as obsessive as the quest itself. Williams' entry in the growing stack of these works has the advantage of tight focus. He limits his survey to the 18th Century - [... more]
$40.00
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The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the ...
I read many books on arctic and antarctic exploration: and hands down, this book is the worst. To put it bluntly, it is a piece of garbage. To intermingle myth with history without a thread of fact, to question every piece of evidence on its own without [... more]
$22.99
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Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest ...
Amazon.com Review: After Columbus found his voyage to Asia unexpectedly blocked by the New World, one driving goal of explorers was to find a way around it. To the south, the Strait of Magellan is one of the most difficult journeys in the world; it [... more]
$35.00
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Antoine Robidoux and Fort Uncompahgre
A much needed history of Colorado fur trade: "At home in either the latest fashions of the day or the greasy buckskins of a mountain trapper...within four years of first entering Santa Fe he had become a Mexican citizen, married the governor's [... more]
$12.95
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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 971.0113 EAN: 9780802060006 ISBN: 0802060005 Number Of Pages: 177 Publication Date: 1993-04-03 [... more]
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the ...
Opening the Canadian West: D'Arcy Jenish's "Epic Wanderer" is a life of David Thompson, a British fur trader who spent nearly three decades exploring and mapping the Canadian West from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific Coast. Thompson was apprenticed [... more]
$34.95
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First Across the Continent (The Oklahoma Western ...
Amazon.com Review: The first white man to cross North America, Scottish-born Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820) was typical of his generation of explorers: this bold adventurer who surveyed the untamed wilderness with impressive accuracy was also a [... more]
$19.95
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Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay ...
Author: Deidre Simmons Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 026.971 EAN: 9780773532915 ISBN: 0773532919 Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2008-01 [... more]
$80.00
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In Darkest Alaska: and Empire Along the Inside Passage ...
Author: Robert Campbell Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9802 EAN: 9780812240214 ISBN: 0812240219 Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2007-09-19 [... more]
$45.00
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John Jacob Astor: America's First Millionaire (Titans of ...
Author: Daniel Alef Binding: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Is Adult Product: 0 Publication Date: 2008-11-10 [... more]
$1.24
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Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic ...
Amazon.com Review: In the spring of 1854, John Rae, a Scottish immigrant to Canada, led a small party of explorers across the Boothia Peninsula to map the missing link in the fabled Northwest Passage. That signal accomplishment, along with Rae's other [... more]
$26.00
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