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LYON, Captain George Francis.

The private journal of Captain G. F. Lyon

of H.M.S. Hecla during the recent discovery under Captain Parry.

Stock Code
97538
London, John Murray, 1825
£750

Lyon's record of the second Parry expedition to Canadian Arctic waters, including the outward voyage to Winter Island (Foxe Channel) in 1821 and the voyage north through the Foxe Basin to Iglulik Island in 1822. Contains a detailed account of the Eskimos of southern Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula and of the natural history and ice passage through Hudson Strait.

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Description

First edition. 8vo., xiv, 468 pp., 7 engraved plates and 1 engraved folding map, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good copy.

Bibliography

Arctic Bibliography 10531; Lande 1291; Smith 6166.

Stock ID:97538

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