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Description: Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander : For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-west Passage, Paperback by Ross, John, ISBN 1108041523, ISBN-13 9781108041522, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Sir John Ross (1777–1856) was a Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine and distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1818, Ross was assigned to . Isabella and commissioned to search for the North-West Passage. This book, published in 1819, describes the expedition, which was unsuccessful although it did discover new facts about Baffin Bay. Several of Ross's former officers disputed his account of the decision to turn back at Lancaster Sound, which he had mistakenly believed was impassable. The ensuing controversy affected the rest of Ross's career and made him unpopular with influential contemporaries including Sir John Barrow and William Edward Parry. It also soured relations with his young nephew James Clark Ross, who had accompanied him, and who in 1831, during a second eventful expedition with his uncle, identified the location of the magnetic North Pole.

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Book Title: Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in H

Number of Pages: 542 Pages

Publication Name: Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander : For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage

Language: English

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Item Height: 1.1 in

Publication Year: 2011

Subject: Historical Geography, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Expeditions & Discoveries

Item Weight: 45.2 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Transportation, History

Author: John Ross

Item Length: 11.7 in

Item Width: 8.3 in

Series: Cambridge Library Collection-Polar Exploration Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback