The Northwest Passage: Atlantic to Pacific: A guide to the seaway

by Tony Soper

For five centuries Europeans sought a short cut across the top of the world. The quest for a passage to the riches of the Orient claimed many ships and many lives as explorers searched for a route through a labyrinth of islands and ice-strewn waterways. It was 1906 before the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen first completed a transit from Atlantic to Pacific.

The Northwest Passage is an ice-choked waterway with spectacular landscapes and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955380146
• ISBN13: 9780955380143
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Venture Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"