Rowing the Northwest Passage

Author: Kevin Vallely
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771641355
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
"Vallely transports the reader to places few will ever go: the very edges of the earth and of human endurance." —Evan Solomon In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change. Along the way, the team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity and unpredictability and bears witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from climate change deniers who have taken to social media to attack them and undermine their efforts.

Blokes Up North

Author: Kevin Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907206245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

The Search for the Northwest Passage

Author: Nellis Maynard Crouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
Studies the history of the search for the Northwest Passage including voyages by Ross, Buchan, Parry, Franklin, McClure and Amundsen.

The Northwest Passage

Author: Brendan Lehane
Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Well illustrated account of the history of the search for the Northwest Passage beginning Sebastian Cabot in the early 16th century.

The Northwest Passage

Author: Rachel Keranen
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502626950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
The Northwest Passage has captured the imagination of nations and explorers for hundreds of years. And today, as global warming reshapes geography, trade along the passage is becoming a reality for the first time. This book provides a sweeping history of the route from the earliest attempts to navigate through its punishing landscape to breaking news about its economic viability in modern day.

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Author: Frédéric Regard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

Voyages in Search of the North-west Passage

Author: Richard Hakluyt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Lines on a Map

Author: Frank Wolf
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771602902
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel Two decades of adventure writing are captured in this entertaining and inspiring collection of travel journalism by renowned adventurer, writer, filmmaker and environmentalist Frank Wolf. Lines on a Map is a compilation of Frank Wolf's best work from the past two decades. Some of the adventures include: two friends on a cycling and volcano-climbing odyssey across Java, the world's most populous island, in the world's most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, in the wake of 9/11; a surreal private lunch with former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau during an 8000 km canoe journey across Canada; discovering the past and present on a 900 km hiking and kayaking journey from Skagway, Alaska, to Dawson City, Yukon; negotiating the cultural divide during a whitewater paddling expedition in Laos and Cambodia with Russian extreme kayakers; exploring the nature and politics of a multi-billion dollar pipeline in northern BC by hiking, biking and kayaking the GPS track of the proposed project route from the oil sands to the British Columbia coast; conducting a mammal tracking survey in the course of a 120 km ski traverse of Banff National Park; discovering the truth about the existence of Sasquatch in northern Ontario; retracing Viking history during a canoe trip across Scandinavia. Complete with dozens of colour photographs, Wolf weaves together humour, drama and local knowledge to transport readers to some of the outermost corners of the globe in an epic quest to celebrate the freedom to move, explore and be wild.

The Conquest of the Northwest Passage

Author: Harry Randall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Accounts of attempts to cross the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean through the Bering Strait to the Pacific Ocean and of the successful voyage by Roald Amundsen in the ship Gj'p2(Ba 1903-1906.

Disappointment River

Author: Brian Castner
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385541635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides, to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.