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Arctic Explorers: In Search of the Northwest Passage (Amazing Stories)

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There is not any saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the seek for the Northwest Passage. For the reason that 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and traveled by daring men searching for profit, glory or a possibility to test themselves against the merciless North. Frances Hern takes us aboard ships with the explorers whose names are memorialized on up to date maps of northern Canada: Martin Frobisher, daring privateer within the service of Elizabeth I; Henry Hudson, a navigator who may have driven his crew to mutiny; John Franklin, whose last voyage became a long lasting northern mystery; the talented Orkneyman John Rae, a surgeon and surveyor at the trail of Franklin.Also vividly recounted are the grueling overland treks of Samuel Hearne; the heroic exploits of Roald Amundsen, leader of the first expedition to traverse the passage; and the fantastic voyages of Henry Larsen, captain of the RCMP vessel St. Roch.

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