Dodge, Ernest S: THE POLAR ROSSES: JOHN AND JAMES CLARK ROSS AND THEIR EXPEDITIONS. , London: Faber and Faber, 1973.

1st Edition; 260pp, illustrated, 8 plates, 3 maps. Blue cloth covers with black spine label and gilt lettering in pictorial unclipped dustjacket. Biography of two extraordinary Arctic and Antarctic explorers. Sir John Ross, commanded two British Arctic expeditions and in his old age undertook a third voyage in search of Sir John Franklin. His nephew, Sir James Clark Ross, accompanied his uncle on his first voyage to find a North-West passage, made four Arctic expeditions under Parry. On his uncles second Arctic expedition he determined the position of the North Magnetic Pole, he conducted the first systematic magnetic survey of the British Isles and commanded an Antarctic expedition. Very Good. (Book ref. 2053)  £20.00

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