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.
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'This volume brings together essays devoted almost exclusively to what Britons, and later Americans, wrote about their search... The essays here reward close reading.' Renaissance Quarterly
Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History,
Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frédéric Regard;
Chapter 1 Arctics
of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (15981600), Mary C. Fuller;
Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of
Anian (15661628), Ladan Niayesh;
Chapter 3 Not Now Believed: The Textual
Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (161516), Catherine Bécasse;
Chapter 4 George Bests Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages
of Discoverie of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard;
Chapter
5 A People of Tractable Conversation: A Reappraisal of Daviss Contribution
to Arctic Scholarship (15857), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickaël Popelard;
Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and
Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1;
Chapter 7 Anthropology as
Curiosity: Samuel Hearnes Journey from Prince of Waless Fort to the
Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer;
Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzies Search for the Northwest Passage: The
Commercial Imperative (178993), Robert Sayre;
Chapter 9 Illusion,
(Self-)Delusion: Jeffersons Corps of Discovery and the Elusive Northwest
Passage (18046), Gérard Hugues;
Frédéric Regard
