Description: First American edition, issued as part of Putnam's Semi-Monthly Library. August 2, 1852. Good in brown wraps. Putnam's Semi-Monthly Library for Travellers and the Fireside. ARCTIC JOURNAL: Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions. Wraps are toned with age, front cover is held together by the middle section. Business card from a biogeography surveyor stapled to free endpaper. Osborn commanded the Pioneer, one of the tenders to Resolute and Assistance of the Franklin search expedition under Captain Horatio T. Austin in 1850-51. His narrative relates the voyage by Baffin Bay, Lancaster Sound, and Barrow Strait, and the party's wintering at Griffiths Island, and provides details on the West Greenland Esquimaux, ice and weather conditions, sledge journeys. Osborn explored the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in the spring sledge journeys of 1851, and on the return voyage, sailed a considerable distance into Jones Sound.
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Book Title: Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Author: Sherard Osborn
Publisher: Putnam
Intended Audience: Adults