The Northwest Passage: Atlantic to Pacific - a Portrait and Guide [Audiobook] download free by Tony Soper
- Listen audiobook: The Northwest Passage: Atlantic to Pacific - a Portrait and Guide
- Author: Tony Soper
- Release date: 2012/8/30
- Publisher: BRADT TRAVEL GUIDES
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781841624389
- Rating: 9.78 of 10
- Votes: 689
- Review by: Rebekah Burkholder
- Review rating: 7.06 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/4
- Duration: 2H1M46S in 256 kbps (32 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, OGG, MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV (compression RAR, BZ, TZO, ZIP, DEB)
- Total pages original book: 160
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M33S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Northwest Passage is an ice-choked waterway with spectacular landscapes and a powerful history of naval endeavour. It is also an unfolding opportunity for adventurous travel. The five-century dream of a trade route to Asia by way of a short-cut through the Arctic archipelago is, this book shows, finally a reality. Over the last decade global warming has opened this fabled passage in late summer for freight and for bold tourists. This is the first book to draw together the rich history with a guide to the region - home for the majority of the world's seabirds, enormous numbers of seals, plenty of polar bears and narwhals and more than enough mosquitoes. It is also home for Inuit, who arrived from the east, adapting superbly to a cruel climate. Today's travellers can see incomparable scenery and a wealth of wildlife.In 1819 John Franklin commanded one of the first naval expeditions to attempt the passage. He was reduced to eating his boots in order to survive.Tony Soper was more fortunate in his own five transits of the Passage and draws on these to describe this unique and relatively unexplored territory.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Guidebooks
- Download servers: BitShare, Krakenfiles, Hotfile, Mediafire, FileRio, 4Shared. Compressed in RAR, BZ, TZO, ZIP, DEB
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.12 USD
- Dimensions: 130x198x12.7mm
- Weight: 317g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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