Product Description: History and descriptions of the expeditions of the First International Polar Year, 1882-83. Illustrated.

In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure.

Product Description: This is an account of voyages made in search of a Northwest passage in the mid-18th century.

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Product Description: This is a reprint of the 1844 classic.

The author commanded a column of horse artillery and two 24-pounder howitzers in the Punjab during the first Afghan War when the North-West frontier was in a particulalry restless condition. He finds himself drawn into the war via Lahore, entering Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass and ends up in the capital, Kabul, accompanying the mission of Lieut-Col. Sir. C.M. Wade.

In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hell-Ship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the steadily worsening relations between Collinson and his officers. William Barr has based his research on a wide range of original archival documents, and the book is illustrated with a selection of vivid paintings by the ship's assistant surgeon, Edward Adams.