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Author Coen, Ross Allen.

Title Breaking ice for Arctic oil : the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage / Ross Coen.

Publication Info. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Central Library - Circulating Collection  HE595 .P4 C64 2012    Available
Description xiii, 215 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.
Contents Strike at Prudhoe Bay State no. 1 -- No cream puff -- Submarines, blimps, trains, and ships -- "Bienvenu dans ces eaux. Welcome to Canadian waters" -- A floating laboratory -- In the passage -- Through the passage -- What did the Manhattan prove? -- Roundtrip -- Epilogue.
Subject Manhattan (Tanker) -- History.
Petroleum -- Transportation -- Alaska.
Tankers -- United States -- History.
Oil fields -- Alaska.
Northwest Passage.
ISBN 9781602231696 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
1602231699 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
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