The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576}}}1806 [Hardcover]

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage  the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans  from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage  the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans  from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Fr?d?ric Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (15981600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (15661628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 Not Now Believed: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (161516), Catherine B?casse; Chapter 4 George Bests 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 Daviss Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (15857), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Micka?l 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 Hearnes Journey from Prince of Waless Fort & to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzies Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (178993), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jeffersons Corps of Discovery and the Elusive Northwest Passage (18046), G?rard Hugues;US? Taylor & Francis 2013 ? Fr?d?ric Regard 2013