Polar Pioneers

Polar Pioneers
Author: Maurice James Ross
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773512344

In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage.