Northwest Passage — by John Wilson

• Nov-1999
• / Historical
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…a richly re-imagined fable which goes far beyond anything the historical record alone might suggest. Russell A. Potter, Arctic Book ReviewPerhaps, on a barren Arctic shore in the summer of 1849, knowing he was dying, a British Naval offi...

• Apr-2012
• / Historical
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An old man sits by the dying embers of a fire in London of 1669. The ghosts of the past surround him and a decades old guilt weighs him down. As a young man, Robert Bylot did it all: journeyed to the magical Spice Islands on a quest for the alchemist...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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In the fall of 1669, the Nonsuch returns to London with a load of fur from Hudson Bay. It brings something else, too -- the lost journal from Henry Hudson's ill-fated search for a passage to Cathay in 1611. The journal finds its way to the aged Rob...

• Sep-2006
• / Action Adventure
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In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels aboard the ill-fated vessel the HMS Erebus from London, England, en route to Canada's frozen and uncharted north...