This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...

Scarce in original cloth. 'One of the finest travel books of the nineteenth century' [Howgego].Back, a British naval officer and accomplished artis...

This United States expedition during the First International Polar Year, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, explored the north coast of Gree...

Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...

Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

'On 22 October 1854... The Arctic explorer John Rae arrived back in England with the first certain intelligence of the fate of Sir John Franklin's...

One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George Nare...

Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purch...

With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310...

The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry's first voyage whilst frozen-in during the A...

A detailed account of the voyage and explorations along the coasts of north-eastern Melville Peninsula, southern Cockburn Land (part of Baffin Isl...

Lyon's record of the second Parry expedition to Canadian Arctic waters, including the outward voyage to Winter Island (Foxe Channel) in 1821 and t...

Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...

Journal by an officer on the first expedition commanded by William Parry. Fisher gives especially useful remarks on natural history and ice condit...

M'Clintock had served on two earlier expeditions in search of Franklin, under Ross in 1848 and under Kellett and Belcher in 1852. This expedition,...

The first traversal of the North-west Passage.Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...

'Kane, on board the Advance, was commander of this expedition, which was financed by Grinnell. Franklin was not found; however, much data concerni...

Payer led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition, on which he discovered Franz Joseph Land. Voyage by way of Norway to the waters north of Nov...

The Resolute, under Captain Kellett was part of Belcher's five-ship squadron. It was abandoned in May 1854, and eventually drifted into Baffin's B...