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The North-West Passage
by Thomson, George Malcolm
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0436520486
- ISBN 13
- 9780436520488
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket..
First British edition, which preceded the American edition published later the same year.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Jacket price clipped and shows a light shelf handling. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; ix, 288 pp. Notes on sources, bibliography, and index follow text.. From the jacket: "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 defenses 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...
Thomson tells the story of that search, from the birth of the idea to the final unexpected triumph. It is a panorama that encompasses five centuries, that links immortal names - Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Ross, Champlain, Franklin, Parry, Amundsen - in a saga of unequalled endurance.
First British edition, which preceded the American edition published later the same year.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Jacket price clipped and shows a light shelf handling. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; ix, 288 pp. Notes on sources, bibliography, and index follow text.. From the jacket: "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 defenses 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...
Thomson tells the story of that search, from the birth of the idea to the final unexpected triumph. It is a panorama that encompasses five centuries, that links immortal names - Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Ross, Champlain, Franklin, Parry, Amundsen - in a saga of unequalled endurance.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011936
- Title
- The North-West Passage
- Author
- Thomson, George Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0436520486
- ISBN 13
- 9780436520488
- Publisher
- Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Voyages
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