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Paperback A Most Dangerous Voyage: An Exhibit of Books and Maps Documenting Four Centuries of Exploration in Search of the Northwest Passage Book

ISBN: 1551952033

ISBN13: 9781551952031

A Most Dangerous Voyage: An Exhibit of Books and Maps Documenting Four Centuries of Exploration in Search of the Northwest Passage

(Part of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library Series)

Arctic exploration has long captured the interest and imagination of explorers, nations, and the public. For more than 400 years, European explorers were lured to the Arctic to try to discover a commercial trading route to the Far East, where gold, spices, silk, and other valuable goods were readily available. Expeditions failed to locate the elusive Northwest Passage because virtually nothing was known about the Arctic Archipelago. Early mariners...

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