In which I thank some people, pretend I'm professional, probably say Knud Rasmussen's name wrong (send me your Knuds!), talk about Elizabethan men going to the Arctic, and then spend a very long time telling you everything you didn't want to know about Jens Munk.

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Delgado, James P.., Delgado, James. Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. United States: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Limited, 2009.

Lehane, Brendan. The Northwest Passage. Netherlands: Time-Life Books, 1982.

McGoogan, Ken. Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. United States: HarperCollins Canada, 2017.

Munk, Jens. The journal of Jens Munk, 1619-1620. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.

Savours, Ann. The Search for the North West Passage. United Kingdom: St. Martin's Press, 1999.