Voyages of Delusion
Subtitle: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780300098662
Subjects: Northwest Passage; History: World; General; History; History - General History; Polar Regions; Modern - 19th Century; Expeditions & Discoveries; History / Polar Regions; Arctic regions; Discovery and exploration
First sentence: ON 5 JUNE 1719 three small merchantmen and a sloop sailed in company from Gravesend on the Thames estuary, bearing the wishes of their owners for 'a prosperous voyage and safe'.