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| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 92572 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous...
| Author: | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 128314 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A fascinating account of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes's 19th Century exploration of vast tracts of the Pacific Ocean, including the new southern continent of Antarctica.
During the voyage they surveyed...
| Author: | Glyn Williams |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 104462 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Williams¿s book is set in the heat of 18th century exploration fever and charts the many perilous expeditions undertaken to find the Passage. Fuelled by the promise of fame and riches from revitalised...
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