De Bray, A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54

De Bray, Emile Frédéric. A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54; Translated and Edited by William Barr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. First Edition. ISBN: 9780802028136. [6333] Teal cloth, 339 pp., with dust jacket, slight darkening to the white dj, otherwise "as new." Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. "In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sir Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language, and only one other account of this particular Franklin search expedition exists."Enseigne-de-vaisseau de Bray, seconded at his own request from the French navy, was something of a rarity among those who made up the search parties: he was not British. (One of his shipmates hopes for the best: 'The Frenchman does not seem an Englishman,' he ob