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Author Hern, Frances, author.

Title Arctic explorers : in search of the Northwest Passage / Frances Hern.

Publication Info. [Victoria, British Columbia] : Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd., 2011.
©2010

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Amazing stories
Amazing stories (Surrey, B.C.)
Note A list of keywords based on the index in the print edition is provided for use in searching the content of the electronic edition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary There is no saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the search for the Northwest Passage. Since the 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit, glory or a chance to test themselves against the merciless North. Frances Hern takes us aboard ships with the explorers whose names are memorialized on modern maps of northern Canada: Martin Frobisher, daring privateer in the service of Elizabeth I; Henry Hudson, a navigator who may have driven his crew to mutiny; John Franklin, whose last voyage became an enduring northern mystery; the talented Orkneyman John Rae, a surgeon and surveyor on the trail of Franklin. Also vividly recounted are the gruelling overland treks of Samuel Hearne; the heroic exploits of Roald Amundsen, leader of the first expedition to traverse the passage; and the incredible voyages of Henry Larsen, captain of the RCMP vessel St. Roch.
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Subject Explorers -- Canada, Northern -- Biography.
Explorers.
Northern Canada.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic Regions.
Discoveries in geography.
Canada, Northern -- Discovery and exploration.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Arctic Ocean -- Northwest Passage.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Hern, Frances. Arctic explorers. Victoria [B.C.] : Heritage House, ©2010 9781926613291 (OCoLC)471042563
ISBN 9781926936130 (EPUB)
1926936132 (EPUB)
9781926936352 (PDF)
1926936353 (PDF)
9781926613291
1926613295