Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin’s letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability…

This 1909 biography of polar explorer Sir Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) was published by Sir Clements Markham (1830-1916). McClintock took leave from the navy in 1854 to command a private expedition…

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