The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., the Naturalist in H.M.S. 'Alert', 1875-1876. Edited by Trevor Levere
London, Routledge for The Hakluyt Society, 2019.
Small quarto, xxxii, 400 pages with 5 maps, 68 figures, and 44 small illustrations plus 6 pages of colour plates (totalling 17 colour illustrations) by Henry Wemyss Feilden.
Gilt-decorated cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
'The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage, and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date.... [Feilden] kept a daily journal, a record important for its scientific content ... He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work, on the Cape Rawson Beds, was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist, and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day' (dustwrapper blurb). Hakluyt Society Third Series, Volume 35.
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