Author: MAGUIRE, Rochfort. Title: The journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854. Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce.
Description: London, 1988. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 5 maps and 5 illustrations. XIV,VI,584 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 169-170. - The Plover's voyage of 1848 to 1854 was the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic, and Rochfort Maguire's journal is the earliest account of a sustained foreign association with the Eskimos of northern Alaska.
Keywords: Alaska Arctic Hakluyt Society Pole travel
Price: EUR 49.50 = appr. US$ 53.80 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 20011