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1 online resource. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Amazing stories
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Amazing stories (Surrey, B.C.)
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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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Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. CaOONL |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Explorers -- Canada, Northern -- Biography.
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Explorers. |
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Northern Canada. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
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Arctic Regions. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Canada, Northern -- Discovery and exploration.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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Arctic Ocean -- Northwest Passage. |
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Electronic books.
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collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hern, Frances. Arctic explorers. Victoria [B.C.] : Heritage House, ©2010 9781926613291 (OCoLC)471042563 |
ISBN |
9781926936130 (EPUB) |
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1926936132 (EPUB) |
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9781926936352 (PDF) |
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1926936353 (PDF) |
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9781926613291 |
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1926613295 |
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