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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

By: Bown, Stephen B.

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Seller ID: 366292

ISBN: 306822822

Binding: Hardcover

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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

By: Bown, Stephen R.

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Publisher: DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE LTD:

Seller ID: 404382

ISBN: 1553653394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history s greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the 40-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic ...
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Author:Bown, Stephen B

White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver