The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 441 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Explorers -- Arctic regions -- History.
Explorers -- Northwest Passage -- History.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- History.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- History.
Explorers -- Arctic regions -- History.
Explorers -- Northwest Passage -- History.
Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- History.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- History.
ISBN:
9780307263926
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HISTORY Disaster Bra | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
"A Borzoi book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.