Arctic ordeal
Subtitle: the journal of John Richardson, surgeon-naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822
By: edited by C. Stuart Houston ; illustrated by H. Albert Hochbaum ; appendixes by John W. Thomson and Walter O. Kupsch ; foreword by W. Gillies Ross.
Contributors: Houston, C. Stuart 1927-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; A. Sutton
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Kingston; Gloucester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 -- Diaries.; Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.; Natural history -- Northwest Territories.; Northwest Territories -- Description and travel.; Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
Description: Appendices A to D detail bird, mammal, fish and plant observations of John Richardson. Appendix E: John Richardson's contribution to lichenology: solution of a 160 year old puzzle by John W. Thomson. Appendix F: John Richardson's geological field work by W.O. Kupsch.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [331]-333.
Includes index.