A voyage towards the North Pole
Subtitle: undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773
By: by Constantine John Phipps
Series: CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 28500; CIHM/ICMH microfiche series -- no. 28500
Publisher: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse ...
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Racehorse (Ship); Carcass (Ship); Racehorse (Navire); Carcass (Navire); Northeast Passage; Nord-Est, Passage du; Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British; Régions arctiques -- Découverte et exploration britanniques
Notes: Tables.

Journal of Phipps, the commander of the expedition of the ships Racehorse and Carcass towards the North Pole. The ships sailed north of Spitzbergen Island but were prevented by fields of ice from advancing further. The Appendix contains observations made in the course of the voyage and descriptions of scientific instruments used on the voyage.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1983.

viii, 253 p., leaf, plates : ill., folded maps ; 30 cm.