Arctic Labyrinth - Glyn Williams

Arctic Labyrinth

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

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Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2009
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-1-84614-138-6 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
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For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British merchants. This title tells this this story covers the tiny, woefully equipped ships of the first Tudor expeditions, the icebreakers and nuclear submarines of the modern era.
For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British merchants. We know now that, while several such passages exist, during the period of the search by sailing vessels they were choked by impassable ice. But this knowledge was slowly won, as expedition after expedition, under the most terrible conditions, slowly filled in their patchy and sometimes fatally misleading charts. "Arctic Labyrinth" tells this extraordinary story with great skill and brilliance. From the tiny, woefully equipped ships of the first Tudor expeditions to the icebreakers and nuclear submarines of the modern era, Glyn Williams describes how every form of ingenuity has been used to break through or try to get round the nightmarish ice barriers set in a maze of sterile islands. The heroism, folly and horror of these voyages seem almost unbelievable, with entire ships crushed, mass starvation, epics of endurance - and all in pursuit of a goal that ultimately proved futile.
Williams' book is both an important work of exploration and naval history, and a remarkable study in human delusion and fortitude.

Glyn Williams is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of London and former president of the Hakluyt Society.He is author of a group of remarkable and original accounts of major naval voyages, including Anson's voyage around the world (The Prize of All the Oceans) and Arctic exploration in the eighteenth century (Voyages of Delusion).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2009
Zusatzinfo 16 pp colour illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 782 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-84614-138-9 / 1846141389
ISBN-13 978-1-84614-138-6 / 9781846141386
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