Title: Under the Northern Lights ... With illustrations by G. R. De Wilde.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical ...
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Title: Under the Northern Lights ... With illustrations by G. R. De Wilde.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Macgahan, Januarius Aloysius.; Wilde, G R. de; 1876. 8 . 10460.d.21.
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8vo. 21cm, first edition, viii, 339p., with 8 plate views from wood-engravings, (inc. frontis), text illustrations, folding colour map, rebound in red cloth with gilt titles, a clean copy. A.B. 10616. The author was a correspondent on board the Pandora. He describes the voyage under the command of. ``Captain Allen Young's expedition in his yacht Pandora (later the Jeannette), 1875-76, into Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, and into Peel Sound. Also contains an account of Young's sledge trips during M'Clintock's Fox Expedition". (A.B.). The Voyage was privately organized. Its object was to sail to the magnetic pole by way of Lancaster Sound and from there negotiate the North West Passage. They reached Beechey Island where they found a number of relics left by earlier expeditions but were finally beset by ice in Franklin Strait. There were two other works written on this expedition both by the commander, one was privately published and contained photographs. John MacGahan, was a noted American journalist and war correspondent, who was born in St. Louis, of Irish parents, (Louth), in 1846. A noted war correspondent, he died, in Constantinople, June 10, 1878, on the threshold of a brilliant career. He was the author of one other book Campaigning on the Oxus; and the Fall of Khiva.