CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-x

Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth

pp 1-14

Part I - The Earliest Attempts: Texts and Contexts

1 - Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598–1600)

pp 15-30

2 - From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566–1628)

pp 31-40

3 - ‘Not Now Believed’: The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615–16)

pp 41-54

Part II - Ice and Eskimos: Dealing with a New Otherness

4 - George Best's Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie … of Martin Frobisher (1578)

pp 55-70

5 - ‘A People of Tractable Conversation’: A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585–7)

pp 71-88

6 - Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and The Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633)

pp 89-102

Part III - The Shift in Methods: Towards Overland Exploration

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)

pp 103-120

8 - Alexander Mackenzie's Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789–93)

pp 121-138

9 - Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson's ‘Corps of Discovery’ and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804–6)

pp 139-152

Notes

pp 153-182

Index

pp 183-188