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Cruise of the Pandora - From the Private Journal Kept by Allen Young, R.N.R., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., etc., Commander of the Expedition (Paperback)
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Cruise of the Pandora - From the Private Journal Kept by Allen Young, R.N.R., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., etc., Commander of the Expedition (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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Sir Allen Young (1827-1915), merchant navy officer and experienced
Polar explorer, took part in several expeditions before that of the
Pandora. As navigator he had accompanied the McClintock expedition
to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin, during which he explored
several hundred miles of new coastline by sledge. He was also in
command of the Fox on the 1860 North Atlantic telegraph expedition
to assess the practicality of a cable route between Europe and
America across the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland. In 1875, he led,
and financed, the British North-West Passage Expedition on the
Pandora, and this compelling account of his journey was first
published in 1876. In it, he records his attempt to reach the
magnetic pole via Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, and to navigate
the North-West Passage in one season, though he failed in this
attempt because of heavy ice in the Franklin Strait.
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