Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost...
Arctic regions
- Author:Rae, John, McGoogan, KenSummary:
- Author:Battersby, WilliamSummary:
James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily determination. When he joined the Franklin Expedition at the age of 32 he...
- Author:Koontz, Dean R.Summary:
United Nations researchers in the Arctic Circle are testing the feasibility of towing icebergs to use as a water supply in other parts of the world. Just as the team sets a final explosive, an earthquake breaks off the iceberg they are...
- Author:Mowat, FarleySummary:
In 1947, Farley Mowat traveled to the Canadian arctic, that vast part of Canada which most Canadians never come to know. Twenty years later, Mowat returned for the most extensive northern trip of his life. In this book, Mowat chronicles...
- Author:David WellingtonSummary:
"There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes...
- Author:Hamilton, Alice JaneSummary:
This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expedition to the Boothia Peninsula, Rae discovers the missing link in the Northwest Passage. On the same trip, a chance...
- Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary:
As the Morning Rose battled through an Arctic storm, its passengers are suffering from sea sickness, all except one who is dead. It seems that the death is a prelude to something more sinister to be found on the Arctic wastes of Bear...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo. In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading...
- Author:Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk, Krykorka, VladyanaSummary:
Life in the high Arctic is beautifully captured in this classic picture book, read aloud in digital form by award-winning Inuit author Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak. The year is 1955 and Arvaarluk and his friends watch as Rocky Parsons...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue...
- Author:Hern, FrancesSummary:
There is no saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the search for the Northwest Passage. Since the 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and testing the strength of her rivets. Helpless until the tide changed and the ice moved,...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests...
- Author:Coates, Ken S., Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Morrion, William R., Poelzer, GregSummary:
A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada's longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to...
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This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events. Non-military or civil requirements thus seemed...