1986 Search for the Northwest Passage: An Annotated Bibliography

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

First edition. Very scarce. A detailed and comprehensive bibliography of the search for the Northwest Passage, the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. With sections on the Strait of Anian, Elizabethan and Tudor trading ventures, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Royal Navy, and Sir John Franklin. Written by Alan Edwin Day, an American historian.