The quest for the Northwest Passage
Subtitle: knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806
By: edited by Frédéric Regard
Series: Empires in perspective -- no. 19; Empires in perspective -- no. 19.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781848932708; 9781848932715
Subjects: History; Discovery and exploration; British
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Northwest Passage and the imperial project: history, ideology, myth / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard and Frédéric Regard; title: Arctics of empire: the north in Principal navigations (1598-1600) / Mary C. Fuller; title: From myth to appropriation: English discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566-1628) / Ladan Niayesh; title: 'Not now believed': the textual fate of the Baffin and Bylot expeditions (1615-16) / Catherine Bécasse; title: George Best's Arctic mirrors: A true discourse of the late voyages of discoverie ... of Martin Frobisher (1578) / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; title: 'A people of tractable conversation': a reappraisal of Davis's contribution to Arctic scholarship (1585-7) / Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Mickaël Popelard; title: Booking a Northwest passage: Thomas James and The strange and dangerous voyage (1633) / I.S. MacLaren; title: 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; title: Alexander Mackenzie's search for the Northwest passage: the commercial imperative (1789-93) / Robert Sayre; title: Illusion, (self-)delusion: Jeffersons's 'corps of discovery' and the elusive Northwest passage / Gérard Hugues