NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE
IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS
With Illustrations of their
CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY;
AND
AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE-FISHERY.

By
SIR JOHN LESLIE
ROBERT JAMESON
HUGH MURRAY

OLIVER & BOYD AND SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON
1832

Third edition, revised.
A popular history of Polar voyages, from Pytheas to Parry and Ross, and the whaling voyages of Scoresby.

CONTENTS
THE CLIMATE OF THE POLAR REGIONS
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE IN THE POLAR REGIONS
ANCIENT VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF A NORTH EAST PASSAGE
EARLY VOYAGES TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE
EARLY VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE
RECENT VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE
RECENT VOYAGES TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE
THE NORTHERN WHALE FISHERY
ARCTIC GEOLOGY

17 x 10 cm. 488 pp + frontispiece. Full calf leather binding.

Good + condition. The top panel on the spine is damaged (see photo). Front board only attached by the threads. Ink spot on the front board. About ⅔ of the map frontispiece missing. A small stain, or possibly foxing to the foot of most pages and a few other marks but overall clean and tidy.