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Chronicles the search for a safe passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific through the lyrics of a Canadian folk song. Features historical facts and background on the expeditions, the author's own re-imagining of the journey, and information on global warming and the struggles of Canada's First Peoples. Includes the musical score of the song.
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"An introduction to the early centuries of exploration, including information about explorers, what they discovered, and the significance of those discoveries. Features include fact boxes, maps, photographs, drawings, a timeline, a glossary, and a list of recommended books and websites"--Provided by publisher.
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A fictionalized account of the voyages of explorer John Cabot, particulary his 1498 journey to the New World from which he and two of his sons never returned, inspiring his middle son Sebastian to eventually make his own voyages of exploration looking for the northwest passage to Asia and for some trace of his long-lost father and brothers.
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find.