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Writing Geographical Exploration: Thomas James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33
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Series: Northern Lights, Book 5
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ISBN10: 1552380629
ISBN13: 9781552380628
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Mar 30 2004
Pages: 344
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.08 Width: 8.16 Depth: 10.24
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781552380628
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Mar 30 2004
Pages: 344
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.08 Width: 8.16 Depth: 10.24
Language: English
Writing Geographical Exploration: Thomas James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33 summarizes the various factors that influence the writing and interpretation of exploration narratives, demonstrating the limitations of the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what the explorer saw and what the text describes. Davies offers a revisionist evaluation of Captain Thomas James, who spent eighteen months in search of the Northwest Passage in the 1630s, to illustrate how modern textual analysis can enrich the appreciation of a traveller's account. Though James's work has been dismissed in the modern period, his work was highly regarded in previous centuries by scientist Robert Boyle and poet Samuel Coleridge. James was not a first-rank explorer, but he was an able navigator and leader, a perceptive scientific observer, and a master author who produced a thrilling tale of adventure that should occupy a more prominent place in exploration writing and history, literary theory, and post-modern geography.
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