Bibliograph

A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, John Ross

Type

Label

A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, John Ross

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097150564

Responsibility statement

John Ross

Series statement

Cambridge library collection. Polar explorationCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage

Summary

Sir John Ross (1777–1856) was a Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine and distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1818, Ross was assigned to H.M.S. Isabella and commissioned to search for the North-West Passage. This book, published in 1819, describes the expedition, which was unsuccessful although it did discover new facts about Baffin Bay. Several of Ross's former officers disputed his account of the decision to turn back at Lancaster Sound, which he had mistakenly believed was impassable. The ensuing controversy affected the rest of Ross's career and made him unpopular with influential contemporaries including Sir John Barrow and William Edward Parry. It also soured relations with his young nephew James Clark Ross, who had accompanied him, and who in 1831, during a second eventful expedition with his uncle, identified the location of the magnetic North Pole.--, Provided by publisher

resource.variantTitle

A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella & Alexander

Creator