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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    November 2015
    May 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139236683
    9781108050210
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236683
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    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1kg, 420 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
    Subjects:
    Geography, Historical Geography
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
    Subjects:
    Geography, Historical Geography
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    Polar explorer John Ross (1777–1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829, he set out on a privately funded expedition on the steamship Victory, accompanied by his nephew James Clark Ross, to try again, returning to England in late 1833. Using survival techniques learnt from the Inuit he befriended, Ross kept his crew healthy through four icebound winters. While the voyage once again failed to find a North-West Passage, it surveyed the Boothia Peninsula and a large part of King William Land. It was also valuable for its scientific findings, with J. C. Ross discovering the magnetic pole. Ross published this two-volume work in 1835. Volume 2 contains scientific reports, ethnological information on the Inuit, an Eskimo vocabulary and comments on natural history.

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