9780295993997 - Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Hardback in Very Good++ condition with Very Good++ dust jacket. 9.5 X 1.75 X 11 inches. 448 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage, James K. Barnett ed. & David L. Nicandri. Published by University of Washington Press, 2015. 9 x 11 in., 429pp., illustrated, index, bibliography. Blue cloth boards with copper titles. In fine condition. On his third and final great voyage, Cook surveyed the northwest American coast in the hopes of finding the legendary Northwest Passage. While dreams of such a passage proved illusory, Cook's journey produced some of the finest charts, collections, and anthropological observations of his career, helped establish British relations with Russia, and opened the door to the hugely influential maritime fur trade. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage sheds new light on Cook's northern exploration. A collection of essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book uses artifacts, charts, and records of the encounters between Native peoples and explorers to tell the story of this remarkable voyage and its historical context.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 429 pp.: color illustrations, color maps ; 23 x 28 cm. Contents; 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 : 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. Subjects; Cook, James 1728-1779. Discoveries in geography. Arctic shipping routes. Polar regions. Discovery and exploration. Diaries and expedition journals. Cook, James. Biographies. Arctic Ocean Northwest Passage. 3 Kg.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 429 Pp. First Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket , Small Bumps To Tips. Remarkably Well-Done Account Of Another Expedition Minutely Examining New Waters, Lands, Peoples, And Their Artifacts, But As Usual No Attempt To Converse At Length Let Alone Discuss Anything At Al With Anyone Native To These New Lands: Conquest By A Process Of Systematically Depersonalization, Erasing The Inhabitants From Usual Cordial Human Contact And Concern Given To Strangers; The Secret Of Western Colonization, Which Would Be Unacceptable Even To The Colonizers If The Natives Were Recognized As Fellow Humans.