Ross's narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage

These charts and views were originally published in Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West P...

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These charts and views were originally published in Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, issued in London in 1835. Ross’s privately funded expedition of 1829–33 began as a renewed attempt to solve the great Arctic problem of the North-West Passage, but became one of the classic survival stories of polar exploration. After the Victory was trapped in the ice at Boothia Felix, the crew endured successive Arctic winters, while James Clark Ross’s journey to the North Magnetic Pole added one of the voyage’s defining discoveries. Survival, however, increasingly depended on Inuit knowledge of food, shelter, travel and the landscape. The collection includes the expedition’s major discovery chart, harbour plans, coastal and settlement views, scenes of first contact, snow houses, indigenous cartography and survival architecture — documents of exploration, anthropology, exchange and Arctic endurance.

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These charts and views were originally published in Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, issued in London in 1835. Ross’s privately funded expedition of 1829–33 began as a renewed attempt to solve the great Arctic problem of the North-West Passage, but became one of the classic survival stories of polar exploration. After the Victory was trapped in the ice at Boothia Felix, the crew endured successive Arctic winters, while James Clark Ross’s journey to the North Magnetic Pole added one of the voyage’s defining discoveries. Survival, however, increasingly depended on Inuit knowledge of food, shelter, travel and the landscape. The collection includes the expedition’s major discovery chart, harbour plans, coastal and settlement views, scenes of first contact, snow houses, indigenous cartography and survival architecture — documents of exploration, anthropology, exchange and Arctic endurance.

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