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The search for the North West Passage / (Record no. 151672)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 2992071
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field BD-DhUL
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20170118162619.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 990607s1999 nyuabc b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 99022261
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0312223722
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number 2992071
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code r------
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G640
Item number .S38 1999
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.4
Edition number 21
Item number WIE
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Savours, Ann.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The search for the North West Passage /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ann Savours.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. St. Martin's Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999.
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Projected publication date 9907
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 342 p., [8] pages of plates :
Other physical details ill. (some col.), maps, ports (some col.) ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. The Elizabethan Voyages -- 2. Henry Hudson and William Baffin -- 3. The Hudson's Bay Company, James Cook and the Eighteenth Century -- 4. Sir John Barrow and the Revival of Arctic Exploration in 1818 -- 5. The First Expeditions of Parry and Franklin -- 6. Franklin's Second Journey to the Polar Sea 1825-1827 -- 7. The Seaborne Voyages of Parry, Beechey and Lyon -- 8. John and James Clark Ross: Four Winters in the Arctic 1829-33 -- 9. Dease and Simpson along the North Coast of America 1836-39 -- 10. Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition 1845-48 -- 11. The Franklin Search Begins -- 12. The Search for Franklin from the Pacific -- 13. The Expeditions of Kennedy, Belcher, Inglefield and Kane 1851-1854 -- 14. The Discovery of the First Relics 1853-1855 -- 15. McClintock's Successful Search 1857-59 -- 16. The Last Searches -- 17. The Navigation of the North West Passage.
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The quest for a North West Passage through the Arctic seas to China and the riches of the Orient began as long ago as the sixteenth century when northern Europeans found the southern route around the Cape of Good Hope barred by the Spanish and Portuguese. It took a further 300 years, as well as the extraordinary bravery and resilience of the explorers, for this elusive route to be finally discovered by Franklin during his famous but ill-fated voyage in the 1840s. Not until the twentieth century was the passage finally traversed by ship."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The expeditions which headed north into the unknown wastes of the Arctic did so in defiance of terrible odds, and the names of those who led them - Frobisher, Cook, Hudson, Davis, Baffin, Parry, Ross and Franklin himself - are central to the mythology of European exploration. This new book tells the story of their remarkable feats and describes how the vast tracts of the ice-bound archipelago were slowly and painfully charted. It portrays the encounters with the Esquimaux and examines their vital help; it describes the boats and ships and the food and clothing on which the explorers depended as well as the alien habitat in which they found themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Northwest Passage.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type Books
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Price effective from Date last seen Permanent Location Not for loan Date acquired Source of classification or shelving scheme Koha item type Collection code Barcode Shelving location Lost status Damaged status Withdrawn status Current Location Full call number
2017-01-182017-01-18Dhaka University Library 2017-01-18 BooksNon FictionA195348General Stacks   Dhaka University Library823.4 WIE
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