Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, Undertaken with a View to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores, in the Years 1836-7

Back R.N., Captain

Verlag: London John Murray 1838, 1838

Beschreibung

vii,(1),456,(12)pp. Octavo. Original blindstamped blue cloth. Pale yellow coated endpapers. Gilt title on spine. Top edge untrimmed. Slight bumping on the corners. Very slight restoration to the top and bottom of the spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. 12 litho plates (including frontispiece) Folding map (at end). Original plate tissues are present. 12 pages of ads at the end dated June 1838, the earliest issue. Generally a very clean crisp copy almost without foxing. A.B. 850. Account of the expedition in H.M.S. Terror, to complete the survey of the coast between Prince Regent's Inlet and Turnagain Point, under the auspices of the British Admiralty. The ship became beset in the ice and drifted along the northeast coast of Southampton Island all winter, before being freed from ice in Hudson's Strait in July of 1837 and returning, in poor condition, to an Irish port. "In the summer of 1860 Copley Amory, the 19-year-old scion of a prominent and wealthy Boston family and a student at Williams College in Massachusetts, was a member of Williams' "expedition" to Labrador and Greenland, whose expenses he also covered to a significant extent. The expedition was led by 37-year-old science professor Paul Chadbourne (later to become president of the University of Wisconsin and of Williams College), and sailed from Thomaston, Maine on June 27th on the 136-ton top-sail schooner Nautilus under the command of Captain Ranlett, returning on September 11th. Onboard with Copley Amory were eight other Williams students, five of them, like Amory, in the class of 1861, and 10 "Passengers" including two students from Bowdoin college and apparently also Copley's one year younger brother who was a student at Harvard ("Amory, A. Harv. '62"). When because of bad weather his ship was forced to spend some days anchored at Godthåb (Nuuk), the "capital" of Greenland (with a population then of less than 300, including 20-30 Danes)". (Wikipedia) A great association copy in superior condition. We also have Amory's copy of Allen Young's Two Cruises of the Pandora in this catalogue. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 143031

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Titel: Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror,...

Verlag: London John Murray 1838

Erscheinungsdatum: 1838

Einband: Hardcover