Quest for the Northwest Passage

'This volume brings together essays devoted almost exclusively to what Britons, and later Americans, wrote about their search... The essays here reward close reading.' Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frédéric Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598–1600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566–1628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 ‘Not Now Believed’: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615–16), Catherine Bécasse; Chapter 4 George Best’s Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie … of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 5 ‘A People of Tractable Conversation’: A Reappraisal of Davis’s Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585–7), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickaël Popelard; Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1; Chapter 7 Anthropology as Curiosity: Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort … to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (1795), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzie’s Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789–93), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson’s ‘Corps of Discovery’ and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804–6), Gérard Hugues;