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Last broadcast on Sat, 3 Oct 2009, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
John McCarthy explores the many, mainly failed, attempts to find the fabled Northwest Passage - a sea passage across the Arctic linking the Atlantic ocean with the Pacific. He also uses a new travel guide to explore medieval England as a traveller might have done in the 14th Century.
Glyn Williams
Glyn Williams is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of London; he has been researching, the Northwest Passage for several decades. His interest started when he visited the Hudson Bay Company archives. He is the author of a new book Arctic Labyrinth about the centuries long quest for the Northwest Passage, where explorers and adventurers sought a navigable route through the ice over the top of North America to Asia; many of them risking everything including their lives on these incredible journeys.
Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Publisher: Allen Lane
ISBN-10: 1846141389
ISBN-13: 978-1846141386
Ian Mortimer
Ian Mortimer is a historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has just published his latest book entitled The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England. The reader is taken on a tour around England in the Middle Ages to discover the places, people, food and atmospheres which were part of the experiences of the fourteenth century traveller.
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN-10: 1845950992
ISBN-13: 978-1845950996
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