Ross, John: Defauconpret, A.J.B., editor:

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RELATION DU SECOND VOYAGE FAIT A LA RECHERCHE D'UN PASSAGE AU NORD-OUEST.... First French edition, published the same year as the English first, of Ross' second voyage. A fundamental Arctic narrative, offered with the rare illustrated appendix. Despite the failure of his trip in 1818, Ross set out in 1829 in the small ship, Victory, to find a northwest passage, but the vessel had to be abandoned in 1832. Ross and his party were rescued in the summer of 1833 in Lancaster Sound. In the meantime, Capt. George Back had set out in search of Ross. Back's account of his explorations was published the year after this volume appeared. The greatest scientific yield of the trip was the discovery of the North Magnetic Pole. Includes a detailed map of the Boothia Peninsula.

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