Cruise and overland expeditions of the Victory under John Ross, including James Clark Ross’s location of the North Magnetic Pole. John Ross was knighted on his return to England in 1833.
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833…Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross.
Ross, Sir John. London: Webster, 1835. [Reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.].
- 1829-33 British Private Second Voyage to the Northwest Passage (John Ross aboard Victory).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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Observations on a Work, Entitled “Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic Regions,” by Sir John Barrow, Bart. Ætat. 82: Being a Refutation of the Numerous Misrepresentations Contained in that Volume.
Ross, Sir John. By Sir John Ross, C.B. &c Captain in the Royal Navy. “Oh! That mine enemy would write a book!” (Edinburgh, London: Published for the Author, by William Blackwood and Son, 1846).
- 1829-33 British Private Second Voyage to the Northwest Passage (John Ross aboard Victory).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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Ross’s heated personal defense against Barrow’s attacks on his reputation: when I looked for an historian I found a calumniator.
The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. Knt. To the Arctic Regions; For the Discovery of a North West Passage; Performed in the Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33.
Huish, Robert. To which is Prefixed an Abridgement of the Former Voyages… Transmitted by an Officer Attached to the Last Expedition. London: John Saunders, 1835.
- 1829-33 British Private Second Voyage to the Northwest Passage (John Ross aboard Victory).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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Includes accounts of earlier British voyages to the high Arctic. Huish is wonderfully sardonic in viewing the whole operation from Captain Ross on down.