Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straights of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence Among the Eskimos During the Years 1864-'69. With 5 steel engravings, numerous maps, and illustrations

Edité par Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1879

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A massive, weighty tome, chock full of large folding maps, illustrations, and photographic portraits. Ruggedly bound in finely woven brown cloth stamped brightly in gold on the spine and arctic landscape explorers, dogsled and ice in gilt on the front boards. Clean and tight throughout; hinges firm.With a frontispiece portrait of Charles Hall protected by a tissue guard. With the slug: "Bureau. Engraving and Printing." Also engraved portraits with tissue guards of John Franklin, Henry Grinnell, and Eskimo Joe. A fascinating, larger-than life narrative of Arctic exploration. A substantial and collectible copy. Charles Francis Hall (1821 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole. The expedition was marred by insubordination, incompetence, and poor leadership. Hall returned to the ship from an exploratory sledging journey, and promptly fell ill. Before he died, he accused members of the crew of poisoning him. An exhumation of his body in 1968 revealed that he had ingested a large quantity of arsenic in the last two weeks of his life. In 1860, Hall began his first expedition (186063), gaining passage out ofNew Bedford on the whaler George Henry under Captain Sidney O. Budington, whose uncle James Budington had salvaged Edward Belcher's exploration ship HMS Resolute, also on the "George Henry". He got as far as Baffin Island, where the George Henry was forced to winter over.[1] The Inuit told Hall of surviving relics from Martin Frobisher's mining venture at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. Hall soon travelled there to see them first-hand, drawing upon the inestimable assistance of his newly found Inuit guides Ebierbing ("Joe") and Tookoolito ("Hannah").Hall also learned what he interpreted as evidence that some members of Franklin's lost expedition might still be alive. On his return to New York, Hall arranged for Harper Brothers to publish his account of the expedition Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux. It was edited by a British mariner and writer William Parker Snow, who was also obsessed with the fate of Franklin. The two men eventually fell out (largely because Parker Snow was very slow editing the manuscript), and amongst other things Parker Snow later claimed Hall had used his ideas for the search for Franklin without giving him due credit. (Wikipedia) First Edition with title page date of 1879.…

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Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straights of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence Among the Eskimos During the Years 1864-'69. With 5 steel engravings, numerous maps, and illustrations
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Nourse, J.E. (Editor)
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Government Printing Office, Washington DC
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1879
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Arctic, Exploration
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1st Edition.
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