During his four years' residence in the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage in 1829-33, John Ross wrote a private letter to Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer of the Navy. The letter, reproduced here, provides valuable historical insights into many aspects of Ross's character and of the expedition generally. His feelings of bitterness toward several of his contemporaries, especially John Barrow and William E. Parry, due to the ridicule suffered as a result of the failure of his first arctic voyage in 1818, are especially revealing, as is his apparently uneasy relationship with his nephew and second-in-command, James Clark Ross. Ross's increasing despair and pessimism with each succeeding enforced wintering and, eventually, the aban...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
ABSTRACT. During John Ross’s arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approxim...
William Scoresby, Jr., whaler and eminent natural scientist, was denied a role in the British Govern...
ABSTRACT. During his four years ’ residence in the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage ...
The space accorded John Ross in the history of th Canadian Arctic is out of proportion to his achiev...
During John Ross's arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000...
Following the abandonment of John Ross's expedition ship Victory in Lord Mayor Bay in 1832, Ross's n...
James Ross took part in more arctic voyages than any other officer of the period. He is less celebra...
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, ...
Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as...
Titre original : Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage and of a residence i...
Through the influence of John Barrow, ships and men left idle by the end of the Napoleonic Wars were...
ABSTRACT. Following the abandonment of John Ross’s expedition ship Victory in Lord Mayor Bay in 1832...
Bourlière François. Ross, M.J. — Ross in the Antarctic. The voyages of James Clark Ross on Her Majes...
.. The man who charted nearly 3000 km of the coastline of North America is best remembered as the le...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
ABSTRACT. During John Ross’s arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approxim...
William Scoresby, Jr., whaler and eminent natural scientist, was denied a role in the British Govern...
ABSTRACT. During his four years ’ residence in the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage ...
The space accorded John Ross in the history of th Canadian Arctic is out of proportion to his achiev...
During John Ross's arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000...
Following the abandonment of John Ross's expedition ship Victory in Lord Mayor Bay in 1832, Ross's n...
James Ross took part in more arctic voyages than any other officer of the period. He is less celebra...
Nineteenth-century exploration of the Canadian Arctic, primarily directed by the British Admiralty, ...
Relations between explorers of early Canada and their English publishers are sufficiently complex as...
Titre original : Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage and of a residence i...
Through the influence of John Barrow, ships and men left idle by the end of the Napoleonic Wars were...
ABSTRACT. Following the abandonment of John Ross’s expedition ship Victory in Lord Mayor Bay in 1832...
Bourlière François. Ross, M.J. — Ross in the Antarctic. The voyages of James Clark Ross on Her Majes...
.. The man who charted nearly 3000 km of the coastline of North America is best remembered as the le...
An archaeological survey to aid in the determination of the exact route of the last Sir John Frankli...
ABSTRACT. During John Ross’s arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approxim...
William Scoresby, Jr., whaler and eminent natural scientist, was denied a role in the British Govern...