Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition (Paperback)

from eduscapes

DISCOVERING THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE tells the fascinating truth story of Commander Robert McClure of the HMS Investigator. In the mid-19th century, McClure and his crew went on a voyage to find a missing expedition. When their ship becomes trapped in the ice, they spend three years trying to survi...

from bcquinnsmom

my copy from the publisher, thanks!! --also, my thanks to the people or algorithms at LibraryThing and the early reviewers' program for the opportunity to read this book. April, 1853. While their ship is imprisoned in the Arctic ice at Mercy Bay, four men from HMS Investigator are hard at work "h...

from BradKautz

Glenn M. Stein has written a captivating account of the last voyage of HMS Investigator, under the command of Robert McClure, which discovered the 'Holy Grail' of a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via passage through the Arctic. The Holy Grail, yet also eminently impractical ...

from octafoil40

This book details the discovery and four year exploration of the Nort-West Passage. It's bibliography is 14 pages long. It's Chapter Notes cover 43 pages. There are 53 pages covering seven appendices. The Preface and Text itself cover 251 pages. The book is a "human" story behind the four year Ar...

from waltzmn

Robert McClure was a man who got away with murder. To be sure, there was something about arctic exploration that seemed to bring out the glory-hunting jerk in people. Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole, and lied about it, and destroyed the records of his leading rival Frederick C...