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M'CLURE, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (1807-1873). The North-West Passage. Capt. M'Clure's Despatches from Her Majesty's Discovery Ship, "Investigator," Off Point Warren and Cape Bathurst. London: John Betts, 1853. 48 pp. Engraved folding map. (Some very light soiling.) Original marbled wrappers. Arctic Bibliography 10565; Sabin 43074. [With:] OSBORN, Sherard (1822-1875). The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator," Capt. R. M'Clure. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. 8o. Folding map and 4 colored lithographic plates. Original blue blind-decorated cloth (slightly shaken, light wear at ends of spine). NMM 916.
FIRST EDITIONS RECOUNTING M'CLURE'S DISCOVERY OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE. M'Clure, in 1850, took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845. M'Clure entered the Bering Strait from the Pacific and found two entrances to the Northwest Passage around Banks Island, now part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Investigator became trapped in the ice of Mercy Bay just north of Banks Island, compelling M'Clure to abandon the ship, but his party was rescued by two ships at nearby Melville Island. The rescue ships were in turn abandoned, and the party proceeded on foot to Beechey Island, where they boarded ships for home. For abandoning the ship, M'Clure was courtmartialled, then honorably acquitted and finally knighted for his endeavors and given the 10,000 pound award as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage. (2)
FIRST EDITIONS RECOUNTING M'CLURE'S DISCOVERY OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE. M'Clure, in 1850, took command of the Investigator, one of two ships sent to find the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing in the North American Arctic since 1845. M'Clure entered the Bering Strait from the Pacific and found two entrances to the Northwest Passage around Banks Island, now part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Investigator became trapped in the ice of Mercy Bay just north of Banks Island, compelling M'Clure to abandon the ship, but his party was rescued by two ships at nearby Melville Island. The rescue ships were in turn abandoned, and the party proceeded on foot to Beechey Island, where they boarded ships for home. For abandoning the ship, M'Clure was courtmartialled, then honorably acquitted and finally knighted for his endeavors and given the 10,000 pound award as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage. (2)