The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

Anthony Brandt

441 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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The enthralling, often harrowing story of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth ce...

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