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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Discovering nothing
    sub title: in pursuit of an elusive Northwest Passage
  name:
    name part: Nicandri, David L.
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxv, 322 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The many attempts by navigators to find a Northwest Passage via its Pacific portal all ended in failure. However, their discoveries spurred expansionist developments that would forever alter the landscape of North America. In Discovering Nothing, David L. Nicandri maps a cast of geographic visionaries and practical explorers as they promoted or sought a workable commercial route linking the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. The discovery of the legendary northern passage proved elusive, but the equivalent land bridges that were built in the form of two transcontinental railroads changed the futures of Canada and the United States. Drawing from close readings of explorers' personal journals, Nicandri provides readers a detailed, engaging and multifaceted investigation into the many players and failed enterprises at the core of this search, beginning in the eighteenth century through to today and to the unexpected impact of climate change on this fabled passage.
  table of contents: Reinventing the Northwest Passage -- Dalrymple's Revenge? -- Mackenzie Solves Pond's Puzzle -- John Meares and the Nootka Aff air -- Correcting Cook? The True Origin of the Vancouver Expedition -- Vancouver's Maze -- Defining the Labyrinth, Cook's Legacy, and the Delusion of the Northwest Passage -- The American Response: The Lewis and Clark Expedition as Diplomatic History -- Following in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark -- The Canadian Dream -- The Artic Quest Redux.
  note: David L. Nicandri.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: r------
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: Northwest Passage
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Northwest Passage
    topic: Discovery and exploration
    topic: British
  subject:
    topic: Explorers
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
  classification: G640 .N53 2024
  classification: 910.9163/27
  identifier: 9780774868877
  identifier: 0774868872
  identifier: 9780774868884
  identifier: 0774868880
  identifier: 9780774868891
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 230924
    record change date: 20240802153406.5
    record identifier: in00004801798
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng