Sir John Ross (1777-1856), the distinguished British naval officer
and Arctic explorer, undertook three great voyages to the Arctic
regions; accounts of his first and his second voyages are also
reissued in this series. (During the latter, his ship was stranded
in the unexplored area of Prince Regent Inlet, where Ross and his
crew survived by living and eating as the local Inuit did.) In this
volume, first published in 1855, the explorer describes his
experiences during his third (privately funded) Arctic voyage,
undertaken in 1850 as part of the effort to locate the missing
expedition led by Sir John Franklin, his close friend. Ross also
summarises in partisan style the previous efforts by the Royal Navy
to find out what happened to the Erebus and Terror, and is scathing
in his account of what he regards as the mismanagement and
incompetence of the Admiralty.
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