A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage.

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Author: Alexander Armstrong (c1818-1899) Year: 1857 Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Publishers Place: London Description: xv+616 pages with showing HMS Investigator stuck in the ice, folding map with routes added by hand in color and appendix. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's textured dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped ruled edges. (Arctic Bibliography 682; Chavanne 1540; Hill 34; Sabin 2017; Staton Tremaine/TPL 3408) First edition. Sir Alexander Armstrong was an Irish naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist and author. After obtaining a medical degree he joined the Royal Navy and was stationed on board HMS Investigator , tasked with finding the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. Investigator was trapped in the ice at Mercy Bay in 1851 and Armstrong spent several winters in the Arctic before he returned to London. Armstrong's account of the voyage, Personal narrative of the discovery of the north-west passage , was published in 1857. It won the Gilbert Blane gold medal for the best journal kept by a Royal Navy surgeon. In 1842 he joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon. He travelled throughout the British Empire and many parts of the world, including the Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Islands, North and South America, and the West Indies. He was promoted to surgeon in 1849. In 1850, Armstrong left London aboard HMS Investigator as a surgeon and naturalist. The ship was part of the McClure Arctic expedition tasked with

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