A Treatise on Navigation by Steam
Following distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars, the Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Ross (1777–1856) embarked on an abortive expedition to discover the North-West Passage. The existence of the Croker mountains, which he claimed had blocked his path, was afterwards dis...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139839457 |