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The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576–1806
Empires in Perspective Series
Author: Regard Frédéric
Language: EnglishSubject for The Quest for the Northwest Passage:
Keywords
martin; frobisher; hudson; bay; ban; island; north-west; erson; company; arctic; Peace River; Young Men; East Indies; Ship’s Library; Northwest Passage; Coppermine River; Baffin Bay; Martin Frobisher; Meta Incognita; Lake Athabasca; Frobisher’s Voyages; James’s Book; James Bay; Robert Bylot; Great Slave Lake; Sir Martin Frobisher; Fur Trade; Fort Mandan; Jolliet; Louis Jolliet; Hudson’s Bay Company; Satans Malice; North West Company; Je Erson; Sir Walter Ralegh
Publication date: 11-2012
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 01-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frédéric Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598–1600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566–1628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 ‘Not Now Believed’: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615–16), Catherine Bécasse; Chapter 4 George Best’s Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie … of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 5 ‘A People of Tractable Conversation’: A Reappraisal of Davis’s Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585–7), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickaël Popelard; Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1; Chapter 7 Anthropology as Curiosity: Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort … to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzie’s Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789–93), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson’s ‘Corps of Discovery’ and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804–6), Gérard Hugues;