Introduction: The Northwest Passage and the Imperial Project: History, Ideology, Myth, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, Frederic Regard; Chapter 1 Arctics of Empire: The North in Principal Navigations (1598-1600), Mary C. Fuller; Chapter 2 From Myth to Appropriation: English Discourses on the Strait of Anian (1566-1628), Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 'Not Now Believed': The Textual Fate of the Baffin and Bylot Expeditions (1615-16), Catherine Becasse; Chapter 4 George Best's Arctic Mirrors: A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie ... of Martin Frobisher (1578), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 5 'A People of Tractable Conversation': A Reappraisal of Davis's Contribution to Arctic Scholarship (1585-7), Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Mickael Popelard; Chapter 6 Booking a Northwest Passage: Thomas James and the Strange and Dangerovs Voyage (1633), I. S. MacLaren1; Chapter 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), Nathalie Zimpfer; Chapter 8 Alexander Mackenzie's Search for the Northwest Passage: The Commercial Imperative (1789-93), Robert Sayre; Chapter 9 Illusion, (Self-)Delusion: Jefferson's 'Corps of Discovery' and the Elusive Northwest Passage (1804-6), Gerard Hugues;