Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole: Performed in His Ships, Dorothea and Trent, Under the Command of Captain David Buchan, 1818; to Which Is Added, a Summary of All the Early Attempts to Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole (Classic Reprint)

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Before I had finished this narrative, it was suggested to me that it would receive additional interest if a Sketch of the several voyages which had already been performed 'ia the same direction were appended, in order that the public might be made acquainted with the origin and pro gress of Northern Discovery without having to wade through ponderous folio volumes, or make a selection from the Voyages of a mixed cha racterf'

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