In these fascinating memoirs of 1826, an explorer recounts his uncompleted third voyage to discover the 'Northwest Passage' trading route.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either...
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship Matthew Betts ... Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Performed in the Years 1824–25, in His Majesty's Ships ...
..Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific... in 1824–25. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1826. . Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole.