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Record #159774:

Voyages of delusion: the search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason / Glyndwr Williams.

Title: Voyages of delusion: the search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason / Glyndwr Williams.
Author(s): Williams, Glyndwr.
Date: 2002.
Publisher: London: HarperCollins
Abstract: Narrates history of British attempts to find Northwest Passage in Eighteenth Century: James Knight, 1719-21; Christopher Middleton (1741-42), William Moor (1746-47), Samuel Hearne (1769-72), and James Cook (1776-1780). US edition published in 2003 by Yale University Press.
Notes:

Reviewed in "The Beaver" 84(1)

Keywords: 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1719-21 Knight.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1741-42 Middleton.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1746-47 Moor.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1769-72 Hearne.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1776-80 Cook.
93"17" -- Eighteenth century.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*48) -- Northwest Passage.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*48) : 91(091)[2002]
ISBN: 0002571811
SPRI record no.: 159774

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