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eBook
From Barrow to Boothia
2002
Overview
Over a three-year period from 1837 to 1939, operating from a base-camp at Fort Confidence on Great Bear Lake, the expedition achieved its goal. Despite serious problems with sea ice, Dease and Simpson, in some of the longest small-boat voyages in the history of the Arctic, mapped the remaining gaps in a model operation of efficient, economical, and safe exploration. Thomas Simpson's narrative, the standard source on the expedition, claimed the expedition's success for himself, stating \"Dease is a worthy, indolent, illiterate soul, and moves just as I give the impulse.\" In >From Barrow to Boothia William Barr shows that Dease's contribution was absolutely crucial to the expedition's success and makes Dease's sober, sensible, and modest account of the expedition available.
Publisher
MQUP,McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject
/ Arctic Coast (Canada)-Discovery and exploration
/ Canada, Northern-Discovery and exploration
/ Cartographers-Arctic Coast (Canada)-Diaries
/ Cartography-Arctic Coast (Canada)-History-19th century
/ Dease, Peter Warren-Travel-Arctic Coast (Canada)
/ Diaries
/ English
/ Explorers-Arctic Coast (Canada)-Diaries
/ History
/ Hudson's Bay Company-Biography
/ Nunavut
ISBN
9780773522534, 0773522530
