A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majestyís Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 & 1820.
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Fisher (Alexander)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.,
A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majestyís Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 & 1820.
Libros antiguos y modernos
Fisher (Alexander)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.,
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Reino Unido)
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Detalles
- Autor
- Fisher (Alexander)
- Editores
- London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
- Materia
- TRAVEL ARCTIC REGIONS POLAR EXPLORATION VOYAGES AND DISCOVERY
Descripción
First edition, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), xi, [1], 320pp., without half-title, frontispiece of a large folding engraved chart (browned and offset onto title), one engraved map (also browned and offset), woodcut illustrs., in the text, cont. half calf, marbled boards, slightly rubbed otherwise and very good copy. ìThe journal of the first voyage commanded by William Edward Parry. On this expedition, Fisher was assistant surgeon aboard the Hecla. He gives an account of the voyage through Lancaster Sound to Melville Island in the western part of the Parry Archipelago, in sear of the Northwest Passage.îóHill. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 605 (second edition).
