Author: PEARD, George. GOUGH, Barry M. ed.
Title: To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey : The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. 'Blossom' 1825-1828.
Description: Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, 1973. Hardcovers. A little wear to dustjacket, small mark to top edges, otherwise very good condition. Frontis. Tipped-in fold-out map. "Peard's journal of the voyage of Captain Frederick William Beechey, R.N., and H.M.S. Blossom to the Pacific and Arctic in 1825-8 is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook, Vancouver and Broughton." 272pp. ISBN 0521200792.

Keywords: pacific exploration history naturalist 19th nineteenth century arctic