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Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean
John Ross had disappeared while exploring the Northwest Passage in 1829. A lieutenant in the Royal Navy, George Back (1796–1878) had already served with John Franklin on two Arctic …
Northward over the Great Ice
Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First …
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle
Even before Charles Darwin changed the world with his theory of natural selection, he was recognised as an eminent scientist and natural historian. Published in 1840, his Journal …
A Thousand Days in the Arctic
In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson–Harmsworth Arctic expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration. Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, …
Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson’s Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619–20
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to …
Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 1, The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to …
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York
York Minster has the largest cathedral library in England. The original library was established in the eighth century, but nothing survives from this period. A new collection was …
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge
For those engaged in research on Darwin or his circle, the Darwin Library is an invaluable resource. Originally donated by Darwin's son Francis to the library of the Botany School …
The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum
Wisbech in north Cambridgeshire was a wealthy port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was home to bankers, writers and influential social reformers including Thomas …
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Jesus College
M. R. James (1862–1936) is probably best remembered as a writer of chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served …