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Record #213024:

Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and The strange and dangerous voyage (1633) / I.S. MacLaren.

Title: Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and The strange and dangerous voyage (1633) / I.S. MacLaren.
Author(s): MacLaren, I. S.
Date: 2012.
Publisher: [London]: Pickering and Chatto
In: Quest for the Northwest Passage : knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806. (2012.),
Abstract: Argues that Thomas James's Strange and dangerous voyage, first book of Northwest Passage exploration published by expedition's leader for Charles I, presented model for subsequent British attempts to find Passage, in that it demonstrated how engaging account, reflecting beliefs of its time, could assist in deflecting criticism of expedition's failure.
Notes:

In: The quest for the Northwest Passage : knowledge, nation and empire, 1576-1806 / Frédéric Regard, ed.

Keywords: 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1612-13 Button.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
92 -- Biographies: James, Thomas.
93"16" -- Seventeenth century.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*48) -- Northwest Passage.
(*623) -- Hudson Bay.
(410) -- Great Britain.
SPRI record no.: 213024

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