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MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS, THE

MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS, THE

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作者: Anthony Brandt 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2011-03

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780307276568

定价: 146.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 441页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

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　　The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurerswho searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail ofnineteenth-century British exploration.

  After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, theBritish took it upon themselves to complete something they had beentrying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled NorthwestPassage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over northernCanada. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sentout expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters ofthe Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, tofind Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last ofthese Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of channels,sounds, and icy seas with two ships and 128 officers and men.

  In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the wholestory of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginningsearly in the age of exploration through its development into aBritish national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descentinto scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is thefocus of the book but it covers all the major expeditions and anumber of fascinating characters, including Franklin’sextraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate HisBoots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history thatcaptures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragicenterprise.

  From the Hardcover edition. 　　Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics seriespublished by National Geographic Society Press, and the bookseditor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Formerly the bookcritic at Men’s Journal, Brandt has written for The Atlantic, GQ,Esquire, and many other magazines, and is the author of twoprevious books. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

　　From the Hardcover edition.
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　　The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurerswho searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail ofnineteenth-century British exploration.

  After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, theBritish took it upon themselves to complete something they had beentrying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled NorthwestPassage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over northernCanada. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sentout expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters ofthe Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, tofind Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last ofthese Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of channels,sounds, and icy seas with two ships and 128 officers and men.

  In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the wholestory of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginningsearly in the age of exploration through its development into aBritish national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descentinto scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. Sir John Franklin is thefocus of the book but it covers all the major expeditions and anumber of fascinating characters, including Franklin’sextraordinary wife, Lady Jane, in vivid detail. The Man Who Ate HisBoots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history thatcaptures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragicenterprise.

  From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介:
　　Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics seriespublished by National Geographic Society Press, and the bookseditor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Formerly the bookcritic at Men’s Journal, Brandt has written for The Atlantic, GQ,Esquire, and many other magazines, and is the author of twoprevious books. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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