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Author Bockstoce, John R.

Title Arctic passages : a unique small-boat journey through the Great Northern Waterway / John Bockstoce.

Publication Info. New York : Hearst Marine Books, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  917.98 BOC    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.986 BOCKSTOCE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Umiaks -- Preparations -- Trial and error -- Return to Bering Strait -- The Yokon -- Cold progress eastward -- To Barrow Strait -- North Pacific -- Change in the eastern Beaufort -- The Northwest Passage.
Note Includes index.
Summary Story of J. Bockstoce, an Arctic historian and archaeologist, who in 1988 became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east in a small boat (umiak).
Subject Alaska -- Description and travel.
Yukon -- Description and travel.
Northwest Passage.
Boats and boating -- Alaska.
Boats and boating -- Yukon.
Boats and boating -- Northwest Passage.
Bockstoce, John R. -- Travel.
Other Form: Online version: Bockstoce, John R. Arctic passages. 1st ed. New York : Hearst Marine Books, c1991 (OCoLC)645761890
ISBN 0688088392 alkaline paper
9780688088392 alkaline paper
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