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Searching for Franklin - The Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855 - James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Black River by William Barr (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No1 | Reading Level: very good
In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, missing in the Arctic since 1845, on the basis of stories, rather vague as to time and place, which he had heard from Inuit in the vicinity of Pelly Bay. The res ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more
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