Narrative of A Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22.
London. John Murray. 1823. 4to, 27cm, The First Edition, First Issue. 4to., xvi,768p., with 30 plates (11 coloured), 4 folding maps; complete with errata slip laid down on final page of Appendix and with the half title, some light foxing or transfer mainly in the fore margin on the black and white plates, generally less than usual, the coloured plates are clean, in later morocco grain light brown half calf, raised bands, gilt titles, match marbled boards, very good to fine complete copy of the first issue. (cgc). Item #40604
T.P.L. 1248. Sabin 25624. WCB 23:1. Field 560. Graff 1406. Peel 80. Arctic Biblio. 5194. The story related here is one of a most devastating and frightful journey of 5500 miles in northern Canada. One of the objects of the expedition was to determine the longitude and latitude of the northern coast of North America. The members of the expedition travelled both overland and by canoe, from Hudson's Bay westward toward Fort Chippewyan, then turned northward to descend the Coppermine River to Coronation Gulf and thence eastward over more than twelve hundred miles into Dease Strait; they finally returned to Fort Enterprise through the Barren Grounds. The expedition was decimated by murder, hunger and cold. For everyman we recommend "Erebus" by Michael Palin.
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