The Search for the North West Passage

by Ann Savours

Savours examines the British encounters with the Esquimaux (Eskimo) and their assistance in charting the Arctic archipelago, the way yearly ice floes affected each expedition, and the boats, diet, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312223722
• ISBN13: 9780312223724
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A good primer on the subject

I would recommend a good detailed map of the artic at hand when reading this book. Ann Savours assumes the reader is intimately familiar with artic geography. Once you get a hand on the geography it is a very good read for the non-fiction addict.