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    Reference 3755 (2031)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Thomson, George Malcolm
    Title THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
    Publishing Information London: Secker & Warburg, 1975 436520486
    Description 1st Edition: x, 288 pages plus illustrations. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. Previous owners neat inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean. The book is the history of all the efforts to find the north-west passage over five centuries. From the dust jacket flap. " The vision was clear, a trading route across the top of the world, a shipping lane North of America to the fabulous riches of Cathay. The way was unknown, unmapped, and its defences were formidable. But for centuries men were to argue, to search, to suffer and to die in the attempt to trace this route that was known only as an idea, a mythology a potent name the North West passage. The search led them into unsuspected terrors, into seas and lands of a hostility beyond belief. Seas in which mountains of ice swung irresistibly shores where towering cliffs of ice could entomb men and ships in their sudden thunderous collapse, lands so barren that it seemed nothing could endure but perpetual ice itself. But men did endure. Slowly and at hideous cost they mapped out the contours of the lands where, for years at a time, land and sea were inextricably sunk beneath the continuous sheet of blinding ice that defended the prize."
    Price £5.00
    Keywords polar,qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, S1-Arc
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