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Arctic ambitions : Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage
Record details
- ISBN: 9780295993997
- ISBN: 0295993995
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 429 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 x 28 cm - Publisher: Anchorage, Alaska : Anchorage Museum : [2015]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : Three Comments on Cook's Third Voyage / Nicholas Thomas -- James Cook, Navigator and Explorer : The Pacific Experience, 1768-1776 / John Gascoigne -- James Cook and the Northwest Passage : Approaching the Third Voyage / Glyn Williams -- Setting the Stage : Spain in the Pacific and the Northern Voyages of the 1770s / Iris Engstrand -- From Russia with Charts : Cook and the Russians in the North Pacific / Evguenia Anichtchenko -- James Cook and the New Navigation / Richard Dunn -- A New Look at Cook : Reflections on Sand, Ice, and His Diligent Voyage to the Arctic Ocean / David L. Nicandri -- Encounters : View of the Indigenous People of Nootka Sound from the Cook Expedition Records / Richard Inglis -- The Cook Expedition and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska / Aron L. Crowell -- Gifting, Trading, Selling, Buying : Following Northwest Coast Treasures Acquired on Cook's Third Voyage to Collections around the World / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- The International Law of Discovery : Acts of Possession on the Northwest Coast of North America / Robert J. Miller -- Cook on the Coasts of the North Pacific and Arctic America : The Cartographic Achievement / John Robson -- Narrating an Alaskan Cruise : Aspects of Cook's Journal (1778) and Douglas's Edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784) / I.S. MacLaren -- The End of the Northern Mystery : George Vancouver's Survey of the Northwest Coast / James K. Barnett -- From Discoveries to Sovereignties : The Imperial Scramble for Northwestern North America / Barry Gough -- The Continuing Quest : The Lure of the Northwest Passage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James P. Delgado -- Sea Ice in the Western Portal of the Northwest Passage from 1778 to the Twenty-first Century / Harry Stern -- Marine Navigation in the Arctic Ocean and the Northwest Passage / Lawson W. Brigham -- The Arctic in Focus : National Interests and International Cooperation / Gudrun Bucher and Robin Inglis. |
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| Subject: | Cook, James 1728-1779 Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration Arctic regions Discovery and exploration |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | G 246 .C7 A74 2015 | 286213 | Stacks | Available | - |