The man who ate his boots the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage
Brandt 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.
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2010.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Brandt, Anthony. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The man who ate his boots : |b the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage / |c Anthony Brandt. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xvi, 441 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Brandt 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. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Northwest Passage |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arctic regions |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Explorers |z Northwest Passage |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | 0 | |a Explorers |z Arctic regions. |
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