Northwest Passage
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The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944: The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Schooner "St. Roch" (originally published 1948; this edition 1969), by Henry A. Larsen (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)- A Concise Account of Voyages, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, Undertaken for Finding a New Way to the East-Indies (London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1782), by Richard Pickersgill (page images in Germany)
- Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1858), by William Edward Parry
- The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N. (London: J. Murray, 1896), by H. D. Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (London: Cassell and Co., 1892), by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
- Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
- A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West passage Between Asia & America, Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 (Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783), by John Ledyard (page images at LOC)
- Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne, by Samuel Hearne, ed. by Rod Davidek (HTML at archive.org)
- A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean: Undertaken By Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795), by Samuel Hearne
- A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne and J. Rice, 1796), by Samuel Hearne
- Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1824), by John Franklin and John Richardson
- Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies, With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office; and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1877), ed. by Clements R. Markham
- The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (London: Printed for John Legatt, 1633), by Thomas James (page images in Germany)
- Description of Messrs. Marshall's Grand Peristrephic Panorama of the Polar Regions, Which Displays the North Coast of Spitzbergen, Baffin's Bay, Arctic Highlands, &c., Now Exhibiting in the Masonic Hall, York Street, Bath (Shrewsbury: Printed by W. Eddowes, 1822)
- Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, Or, The Adventures of Sir John Franklin (New York: G. Cooper, 1859), by John Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (London: Printed for John Legatt, 1633), by Thomas James (page images in Germany)
- A Collection of Voyages and Travels, in Three Parts (London: O. Payne, 1741), by Thomas James, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean Pointis, and Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, For Discovering a North West Passage; With an Accurate Survey of the Coast, and a Short Natural History of the Country (London: Printed for H. Whitridge, 1748), by Henry Ellis
- The Worldes Hydrographical Discription (1595), by John Davis
- An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton
- Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), by James Cook and James King
- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent (1850 edition), by Richard Hakluyt and John Winter Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
- The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (London: Printed for John Legatt, 1633), by Thomas James (page images in Germany)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Arctic regions- China's Arctic Aspirations (SIPRI policy paper #34; 2012), by Linda Jakobson and Jingchao Peng (PDF with commentary at sipri.org)
- The Arctic in Fact and Fable (with "Fort Yukon" by Evelyn Stefansson Nef; Headline Series #51; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1945), by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, contrib. by Evelyn Stefansson Nef (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Account of the Arctic Regions, With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (2 volumes; Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1820), by William Scoresby
- Adventurers of the Far North, by Stephen Leacock
- Arctic Heroes: Facts and Incidents of Arctic Explorations From the Earliest Voyages to the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin, Embracing Sketches of Commercial and Religious Results (New York: Nelson and Phillips, c1875), by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
- The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration From the Earliest Times to the Discovery of the Pole (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Helen S. Wright
- Letters From High Latitudes, Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen, by Frederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (Gutenberg text)
- Narrative of the North Polar Expedition, by United States Navy (page images at MOA)
- Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence Among the Eskimos, During the Years 1864-'69 (Washington: GPO, 1879), by Charles Francis Hall, ed. by J. E. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Phantom of the Poles (New York: Walter S. Rockey Co., 1906), by William Reed
- The Romance of Polar Exploration: Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery" (London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by G. Firth Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Skipper in Arctic Seas (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890), by Walter J. Clutterbuck (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1912), by A. W. Greely (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-East of Siberia the Frozen Ocean and the North-East Sea, by Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev (page images at LOC)
- An Arctic Boat Journey, in the Autumn of 1854, by I. I. Hayes (page images at MOA)
- The First Crossing of Greenland (2 volumes; London and New York: Longmans, Green, and co., 1890), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Hubert Majendie Gepp
- Professor Sonntag's Thrilling Narrative of the Grinnell Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1853, 1854, and 1855, by August Sonntag (page images at MOA)
- Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1858), by William Edward Parry
- Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1860, 1861 and 1862 (New York : Harper, 1865), by Charles Francis Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1881?), by William H. Gilder
- Breaking the Record: The Story of Three Arctic Expeditions (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004), by Susan Hassol (PDF files in Norway)
- The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on the Future of the Arctic (2013 North Pacific Arctic Conference Proceedings) (c2013), ed. by Oran R. Young, Jong Deog Kim, and Yoon Hyung Kim (PDF files with commentary at eastwestcenter.org)
- Polar Gleams: An Account of a Voyage on the Yacht "Blencathra" (London: Edward Arnold, 1894), by Helen Peel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate With the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S. &c. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by Frederick William Beechey
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