The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

by Anthony Brandt

Book Overview

The enthralling, often harrowing story of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration. Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307263924
• ISBN13: 9780307263926
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.7"