Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest Passage.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, by Glyn Williams. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. xx, 467 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).

For several decades, the discussion about the existence and importance of a navigable route across the top of North America has been left in the hands of armchair explorers and antiquarians. The issue seemed of marginal significance, if only because the failed attempts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to identify a commercially viable Northwest Passage had ended in despair, hardship, and disappointment. The contemporary ...

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