THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

Book Club Associates, 1975. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Fine. Book Club Associates Edition: x, 288pp plus illustrations. Brown cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dustjacket. The book is the history of all the efforts to find the north-west passage over five centuries. From the dustjacket flap. " The vision was clear, a trading route across the top of the world, a shipping lane North of America to the fabulous riches of Cathay. The way was unknown, unmapped, and its defences were formidable. But for centuries men were to argue, to search, to suffer and to die in the attempt to trace this route that was known only as an idea, a mythology a potent name the North West passage. The search led them into unsuspected terrors, into seas and lands of a hostility beyond belief. Seas in which mountains of ice swung irresistibly shores where towering cliffs of ice could entomb men and ships in their sudden thunderous collapse, lands so barren that it seemed nothing could endure but perpetual ice itself. But men did endure. Slowly and at hideous cost they mapped out the contours of the lands where, for years at a time, land and sea were inextricably sunk beneath the continuous sheet of blinding ice that defended the prize." Corners sharp, dustjacket clean. Appears unread. Fine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2894. .