Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as to call into question the customary straightforward equation that readers draw between explorers' eyewitness experience and the narrative account of them, issued some time after their return to England. Captain Cook's first published narrative is the notorious case in point. Narratives of exploration played important roles in the establishment of imperial claims. The case of the publishing house of John Murray, good friend of Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty for much of the early 19th century, offers an examination of much of the discursive shaping of the Canadian Arctic during the British Navy's search for a Northwest Pass...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
The Northwest Passage has always held a symbolic role in the mythology of Canadian nationalism, but ...
Forty-nine books and articles published during the last 140 years give two dozen different figures f...
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, ...
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as ...
In 1855 a parliamentary committee concluded that Robert McClure deserved to be rewarded as the disc...
England's search for the Northwest Passage marks an important dividing line in the development of th...
William Scoresby, Jr., whaler and eminent natural scientist, was denied a role in the British Govern...
The literature of exploration was an important proto-form of Canada's literary experience. Although ...
During his four years' residence in the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage in 1829-33,...
The writing of historical polar exploration in the English-speaking academy has undergone a substant...
The central issue in Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expediti...
During John Ross's arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000...
This thesis is a study of the public perception of the Arctic through explorers' journals and the mo...
This thesis will concern itself with British involvement in the Arctic during the period 1818 to 18...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
The Northwest Passage has always held a symbolic role in the mythology of Canadian nationalism, but ...
Forty-nine books and articles published during the last 140 years give two dozen different figures f...
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, ...
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as ...
In 1855 a parliamentary committee concluded that Robert McClure deserved to be rewarded as the disc...
England's search for the Northwest Passage marks an important dividing line in the development of th...
William Scoresby, Jr., whaler and eminent natural scientist, was denied a role in the British Govern...
The literature of exploration was an important proto-form of Canada's literary experience. Although ...
During his four years' residence in the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage in 1829-33,...
The writing of historical polar exploration in the English-speaking academy has undergone a substant...
The central issue in Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expediti...
During John Ross's arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000...
This thesis is a study of the public perception of the Arctic through explorers' journals and the mo...
This thesis will concern itself with British involvement in the Arctic during the period 1818 to 18...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
The Northwest Passage has always held a symbolic role in the mythology of Canadian nationalism, but ...
Forty-nine books and articles published during the last 140 years give two dozen different figures f...