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North-East Passage to Muscovy: Stephen Borough and the First Tudor Explorations
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Kit Mayers
Nearly 25 years before Francis Drake began his famous voyage around the world a much less well-known sailor led the first great Tudor exploration. The sailor was Stephen Borough, a Devon man, who undertook to find a north-east passage to China and the riches of the Orient. He did not find a north-east passage but he did take the first steps in the ...
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True Ocean Found: Paludanus's Letters on Dutch Voyages to the Kara Sea, 1595-1596
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James D. Tracy (Editor)
"True Ocean Found "was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Seeking an easy route to the rich trade of the East, sixteenth-century geographer theorized that northern ...
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Quest for the Northeast Passage
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A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions ... undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific
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Sir John Barrow
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National Security and International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic - The Case of the Northern Sea Route
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Willy Ostreng, Willy Streng (Editor), Willy Xstreng (Editor)
The basic objective of this book is to place the Northern Sea Route, as the largest scale economic endeavour of the North, into the broader picture of contemporary Arctic politics. The book's overall focus is on the issue-specific needs, properties and interactional patterns that currently exist between the two driving forces underlying regional ...
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The northeast passage : black water, white ice
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Helen Orlob
Relates the attempts since 1553 of men from various nations to navigate the dangerous Northeast Passage through the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean.
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The three voyages of William Barents to the Arctic regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)
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Gerrit de Veer, Charles T. Beke, Laurens Reinhart Koolemans Beijnen
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A True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages (1609)
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Russians in the Bering Strait, 1648-1791
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Mikhail Ivanovich Belov
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The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North
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Constantine Krypton
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North-East Passage; Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, His Life and Times
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George Kish
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The Natural and Societal Challenges of the Northern Sea Route: A Reference Work
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Willy Streng (Editor), Willy Cstreng (Editor), Willy A~streng (Editor)
The Northern Sea Route (NSR) through Russia's ice-infested Arctic waters can potentially halve sailing distances between Europe and Northeast Asia. It also passes by some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves. As we enter the 21st century, technological, political and even climatic developments are again making the NSR an interesting ...
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Northabout: Sailing the North East and North West Passages
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Jarlath Cunnane
Eight Irishmen and their 47-foot aluminium boat Northabout left Westport in June 2001 to sail the demanding Northwest Passage. Rivalling the Antarctic for drama and tragedy, it meanders north of Canada and Alaska through the Arctic Ocean. Many had failed until the great Amundsen achieved the first navigation in 1903-06. During 2001's brief Arctic ...
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The Northeast Passage : from the Vikings to Nordenskiöld
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Christoffer H. Ericsson, Nils-Erik Raurala, Helsingin yliopisto. Kirjasto, John Nurmisen säätiö
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Across the top of Russia.
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Richard Petrow
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Seventy north to fifty south : the story of Captain Cook's last voyage : wherein are discovered numerous South Pacific Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the coast of North America, and Alaska
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Paul W. Dale, James Cook
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The voyage of the Chelyuskin
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1933-1934 Cheliuskin Expedition, Otto IUlvich Shmidt, Alec Brown
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A chronological history of north-eastern voyages of discovery and of the early eastern navigations of the Russians
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Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America : to which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the frozen sea, in search of a north east passage : serving as an explanation of a...
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G. F. Müller, Thomas Jefferys
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[A voyage to the Pacific Ocean] : [undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: to determine the position and extent of the West side of North America, its distance from Asia, and the practicability of a...
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James Cook
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A winter away from home : William Barents and the North-east passage
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Rayner Unwin
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Chronological history of north-eastern voyages of discovery.
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James Burney
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The northern sea route; Soviet exploitation of the North East Passage.
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Terence E. Armstrong
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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken by command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, being a copious...
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Captain Cook's third and last voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.
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James Cook
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