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Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0224082310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrandt 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.
Author: Dan Simmons
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2007-03-08
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 0316003883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780802137944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes a series of nineteenth-century British expeditions into Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, chronicling the adventures of explorers who ventured into some of the most perilous unknown regions of the world.
Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1446402894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascination characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and politicians, sceptics and tireless believers. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history - a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly.
Author: Mireya Mayor
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1426207212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned primatologist Mayor recounts her journey from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist and, ultimately, to National Geographic explorer.
Author: Glyn Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0520269950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0307276562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.
Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781299270091
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Published: 2008-10
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ISBN-13: 9781845950200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine M. Wilson
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781872375052
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