Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar SearchColburn and Company, 1852 - Всего страниц: 347 Articles from the ship's newspaper, Aurora Borealis, published monthly on the 'Assistance', Captain H.T. Austin, during the Franklin search of 1850-51. Marginal notes by James Donnot, surgeon. |
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