Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a Northwest Passage And of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833; Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Rossand the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
by Sir John Ross
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E-176: E. L. Carey. Good. 1835. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. E. L. Carey & A. Hart, Philadelphia, PA. 1835. Xxii, 456 pgs. Illustrated with a hand-colored folding map. Bound in 19th century full calf leather with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are chipped and worn). Ex-library item with bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress in search of a northwest passage, a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross's second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search of an opening to the west. The two Rosses mapped James Ross Strait and parts of King William Island and in 1831 James located the Magnetic North Pole. The Ross expedition then disappeared in the ice-bound Gulf of Boothia until 1833. Ross and his party were eventually rescued in the summer of 1833 in Lancaster Sound. E-182; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 740 pages .
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- Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a Northwest Passage And of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833; Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Rossand the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
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- Sir John Ross
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- E. L. Carey
- Place of Publication
- E-176
- Date Published
- 1835
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