The Man Who Ate His Boots
Author: Brandt, Anthony
ISBN: 9780307276568
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 22 Mar 2011
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
A rousing and often horrifying story of the impossibly brave nineteenth-century explorers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. ANCHORBR>BR>p>After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century- find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, i>The Man Who Ate His Boots /i>captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise./p>
ISBN: 9780307276568
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 22 Mar 2011
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
A rousing and often horrifying story of the impossibly brave nineteenth-century explorers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. ANCHORBR>BR>p>After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century- find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, i>The Man Who Ate His Boots /i>captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise./p>
