northwest passage

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue John Hudson, the missing son of explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the "Discovery" is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.

Text and illustrations survey French explorer Jacques Cartier's search for a water route across the Americas in the sixteenth century, describing Cartier's life before his voyages, his land claims in Canada, his crew's harsh Canadian winter in 1535-36, and the troubled Roberval Colony, providing a glossary, lists of important dates and people, and selected further resources.

Chronicles man's search to find a sea route linking Europe with Asia, profiling the men who first began exploring the frozen North and explaining how Roald Amundsen finally found the fabled Northwest Passage.

Presents the fictional journal of fourteen-year-old Peter Griffin in which he describes his adventures as a member of an expedition to the frozen lands of the Arctic sea in search of clues to what happened to Sir John Franklin, an explorer who set out twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest passage.

A history of explorations made to find a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the top of Canada.

Chronicles the search for the Northwest Passage--a route to Asia through the Arctic Ocean--describing the efforts of such men as John Franklin, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, and Roald Amundsen.

Studies the Northwest Passage that provides a water link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and examines early failed expeditions and explorers as well as the successful journey by Norwegian Roald Amundsen who became the first to navigate the passage by boat.

Provides an account of the Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin in 1845 when he and a crew of 129 officers and men set out from Greenland in search of a navigable shortcut to the Atlantic and Pacific, only to become lost without a sign for fourteen years when searchers finally found evidence that the mission had met with disaster.

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue John Hudson, the missing son of explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the "Discovery" is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.

A biography of Sir John Franklin who went on three expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage and disappeared on the third. Describes his role in mapping and exploring the Arctic.