By Gerard Kenney
ISBN-10: 1897045131
ISBN-13: 9781897045138
Over the 500 or so years that guy hunted for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia throughout the North American land mass, dozens of ships have been misplaced and enormous quantities of mariners died. ultimately, a sea path stretching in the course of the waters of the archipelago and alongside Canada’s mainland Arctic coast used to be pieced jointly. yet may possibly ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the level that it can be used as a global transport course? seagoing captains and their ships – a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian start, Henry Asbjorn Larsen – replied that question within the first 1/2 the 20 th century.
The first a part of this ebook recounts their profitable efforts. the second one half addresses the various unsettling environmental and sovereignty concerns about the way forward for the Northwest Passage during this time of melting ice caps, glaciers and sea ice within the Arctic.
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