01365cam a2200289 4500 544928708 TxAuBib 20150121120000.0 090922s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009038835 9780307263926 0307263924 (OCoLC)401141613 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ JST IH9 C#P BWX MOF VP@ SGB CDX HFU TxAuBib Brandt, Anthony. The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage / Anthony Brandt. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. xvi, 441 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-418) and index. Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. 20150121. Explorers Northwest Passage History. Explorers Arctic regions History. Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration History. Arctic regions Discovery and exploration History. BTCLS