Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic Regions, from the Year 1818 to the Present Time: Under the Command of the Several Naval Officers . in Search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with two attempts to reach the Pole

Author: John Barrow (1764-1848) with a handwritten letter by the authorYear: 1846Publisher: John MurrayPlace: LondonDescription: xiv+[1]-53+[16 ad] pages with Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 2 maps (one folding) Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's full blue cloth, decoratively paneled in blind, spine stamped in gilt, later yellow endleaves. With one page letter from John Barrow to Rear Admiral Sir G E Hammond. (Arctic Bibliography 1096) First edition.  Contains a detailed account of the principal British expeditions into the North American Arctic (also to Svalbard), from that of Ross in 1818 to those of Back and Simpson, 1836-39; their scientific achievements, and contribution towards a discovery of a Northwest Passage. The final chapter includes criticism of Sir John Ross' second voyage 1829-33, to which Ross replied in his Observations on a Work by Sir John Barrow (1846).  Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servan