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• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

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• The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944: The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Schooner "St. Roch" (originally published 1948; this edition 1969), by Henry A. Larsen (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Concise Account of Voyages, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, Undertaken for Finding a New Way to the East-Indies (London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1782), by Richard Pickersgill (page images in Germany)
• Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1858), by William Edward Parry
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N. (London: J. Murray, 1896), by H. D. Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (London: Cassell and Co., 1892), by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
• Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
• A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West passage Between Asia & America, Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 (Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783), by John Ledyard (page images at LOC)
• An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne, by Samuel Hearne, ed. by Rod Davidek (HTML at archive.org)
• A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean: Undertaken By Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell ... , 1795), by Samuel Hearne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1824), by John Franklin and John Richardson
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies, With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office; and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1877), ed. by Clements R. Markham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of the recent voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic regions in the years 1829-30-31-32-33, (New-York, Wiley & Long, 1835), by Edwin Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage of discovery, to the Arctic regions [electronic resource] : performed between the 4th of April and the 18th of November, 1818, in His Majesty's ship Alexander, Wm. Edw. Parry, Esq. lieut. and commander / (London : Printed for Richard Phillips; by G. Sidney ..., [1819?]), by Alexander Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sketch of the British fur trade in North America [electronic resource] : 8 vo. by the Earl of Selkirk, London, 1816 : Voyage de la mer Atlantique à l'océan Pacifique par le nord-ouest dans la mer Glaciale, par le capitaine Laurent Ferrer Maldonado, l'an 1588 ... Plaisance, de l'Imprimerie des Majno, 1812. ([S.l. : s.n., 1816?]), by Thomas Douglas Selkirk and Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impracticability of a north-west passage for ships, impartially considered [electronic resource]. ([London? : s.n.], 1824), by Scrutator (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage de la mer Atlantique à l'océan Pacifique par le nord-ouest dans la mer glaciale [ressource électronique] / (Plaisance [France?] : De l'Imprimerie del Majno, 1812), by Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado and Carlo Amoretti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery [electronic resource] : performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 : illustrated with cuts, and a chart, shewing the tracts of the ships employed in this expedition / (London : Printed for E. Newbery ..., 1781), by John Rickman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's defence [electronic resource] : wherein his conduct during his late voyage for discovering a passage from Hudson's-Bay to the South-Sea is impartially examin'd, his neglects and omissions in that affair fully pro'd, the falsities and evasions in his defence expos'd, the errors of his charts laid open and his accounts of currents, streights, and rivers, confuted, whereby it will appear, with the highest probability, that there is such a passage as he went in search of : with an appendix of original papers and a map of the in-land and sea-coast of North-America in and about Hudson's Bay / (London : Printed by the author's appointment, and sold by Jacob Robinson ..., 1744), by Arthur Dobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Kt., F.R.S. etc., late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital [electronic resource] / (London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polar Seas and Sir John Franklin [electronic resource]. ([S.l. : s.n., 1853?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entdeckungsriese unter den Befehlen der britishcen Admiralität mit den königlichen Schiffen Isabella und Alexander um Baffins-Bay [electronic resource] : auszuforschen und die Möglichkeit einer nordwestlichen Durchfahrt zu untersuchen / (Leipzig : F. Fleischer, 1820), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du second voyage fait à la recherche d'un passage au nord-ouest [ressource électronique] / (Paris : Bellizard, Barthès, Dufour et Lowell, 1835), by John Ross and James Clark Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage of discovery [electronic resource] : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and enquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / (London : Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode ... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1819), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. (Newcastle : Printed by M. Brown ..., 1790), by James Cook, Constantine John Phipps, and Arthur Phillip (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British mars [electronic resource] : containing several schemes and inventions, to be practised by land or sea against the enemies of Great Britain, shewing more plainly, the great advantage Britain has over other nations, by being masters at sea ... to which is added, an appendix, containing a scheme for manning the British navy ... / (London : Printed for the author, and sold by William Flaxney ..., 1763), by Joseph Robson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative or journal of a voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world [electronic resource] : performed in the years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 / (London : Printed for J. Lee ..., sold by R.S. Kerby ..., J. Smeeton, printer ..., 1802), by George Vancouver and William Robert Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the "Dobbs Galley" and "California" in the years 1746 and 1747 for discovering a North West Passage [electronic resource] : with an accurate survey of the coast and a short natural history of the country together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / (London : Printed for H. Whitridge ..., 1748), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true North-west passage [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1865?]), by Matthew Macfie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaggio dal mare Atlantico al Pacifico per la via del Nordovest [electronic resource] : fatto dal capitano Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado, l'anno MCLXXXVIII [i.e. 1588] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1809?]), by Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Description of the coast, tides, and currents, in Button's Bay, and in the Welcome [electronic resource] : being the North-west coast of Hudson's Bay, from Churchill River, in 58@ 56' north latitude, to Wager River or Strait, in 65@ 24' taken from Scrog's, Crow's, Napier' s, and Smith's journals, made in the years 1722, 1737, 1740, 1742, 1743, and 1744 : also, from the discoveries made in 1742, in the voyage in the Furnace Bomb, and Discovery Pink, commanded by Captain Middleton and Captain Moor ; shewing from these journals, a probability, that there is a passage from thence to the western ocean of America. (Dublin : [s.n.], 1746) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America [electronic resource] : containing a description of their lakes and rivers, the nature of the soil and climates, and their methods of commerce, &c., shewing the benefit to be made by settling colonies, and opening a trade in these parts, whereby the French will be deprived in a great measure of their traffick in furs, and the communication between Canada and Mississippi be cut off : with an abstract of Captain Middleton's Journal, and observations upon his behaviour during his voyage and since his return / (London : Printed for J. Robinson ..., 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, Christopher Middleton, and Bartolomé de Fuentes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rejoinder to Mr. Dobb's reply to Captain Middleton [electronic resource] : in which is expos'd, both his wilful and real ignorance of tides, &c. his Jesuitical prevarications, evasions, falsities, and false reasoning ... in a word, an unparalelled disingenuity, and ... a glaring impudence, are set in a fair light / (London : Printed for M. Cooper ..., G. Brett ..., and R. Amey ..., 1745), by Christopher Middleton and Arthur Dobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] : die Unternehmungen fur seine Rettung und die nordwestliche Durchfahrt / (Berlin : Nicolai, 1854), by Karl Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articles of agreement for carrying on an expedition by Hudson's Streights for the discovery of a North-west passage to the western and southern ocean of America [electronic resource] : dated March 30, 1745. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year 1745) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage [electronic resource] : and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 / (London : A.W. Webster, 1835), by John Ross and James Clark Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire chronologique des voyages vers le pôle arctique [ressource électronique]. ([S.l. : s.n., 1818?]), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great probability of a north west passage [electronic resource] : deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; and to intercept some navigators from Boston in New England, whom he met with, then in search of a north west passage : proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter : with three explanatory maps .../ (London : Printed for Thomas Jeffereys ..., 1768), by Thomas Jefferys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery of the Northwest Passage [electronic resource] : Dease and Simpson' s Arctic land expedition. ([S.l. : s.n., 1840?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks and conjectures on the voyage of the ships Resolution and Discovery in search of a northerly passage from Kampschatka to England, after the death of Capt. James Cook [electronic resource] : with reasons to imagine that those ships have wintered in Siberia, Nova Zembla, or Lapland : to which is added an eulogium, or tribute of gratitude to memory of that celebrated navigator / (London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bew, 1780), by R. B. (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage of discovery [electronic resource] : made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and enquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / (London : John Murray ..., 1819), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea [electronic resource] : wherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities observed, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this journall of it, published by His Majesties command : to which are added a plat or card for the sayling in those seas, divers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. : with an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London, and an advise concerning the philosophy of these late discoveries by W.W. (London : Printed by John Legatt, for John Partridge, 1633), by Thomas James, Henry Gellibrand, and fl. 1633 W. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 [electronic resource] / (London : A.W. Webster, 1835), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reis ter ontdekking van eene nordwestelijke doorvaart [electronic resource] : uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee gedaan in de jaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper onder het bevel van W.E. Parry / (Amsterdam : J. van der Hey, 1822), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [electronic resource] / (London; Edinburgh : T. Nelson, 1860), by John Leslie, Hugh Murray, and R. M. Ballantyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of voyages towards the North-West in search of a passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631 [electronic resource] : with selections from the early records of the honourable the East India Company and from mss. in the British Museum / (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1849), by Thomas Rundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire générale des voyages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues [ressource électronique] : contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile, & de mieux avéré, dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré, touchant leur situation, leur étendue, leurs limites ... : avec les moeurs et les usages des habitans ... : pour former un systême complet d'histoire et de géographie moderne, qui représentera l'état actuel de toutes les nations : enrichie de cartes géographiques nouvellement composé es sur les observations les plus authentiques ; de plans et de perspectives, de figures d'animaux, de végétaux, habits, antiquités, &c. (A Amsterdam : Chez E. van Harrevelt & D.J. Changuion, 1777), by abbé Prévost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professor Sonntag's thrilling narrative of the Grinnell Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1853, 1854, and 1855 [electronic resource] : in search of Sir John Franklin, under the command of Dr. E. K. Kane, U.S.N., containing the history of all previous explorations of the Arctic Ocean, from the year 1618 down to the present time / (Philadelphia : J.C.H. Whiting, [1857?]), by August Sonntag and Charles C. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted [electronic resource] / (London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, W.H. Reid, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818), by Daines Barrington and Mark Beaufoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions [electronic resource] : performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R. N., F.R.S. &c. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. (Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1832), by F. W. Beechey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of summer and winter views of the polar regions [electronic resource] : as seen during the expedition of Capt. James Clark Ross, Kt., F.R.S. in 1848-9 : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / ([London? : s.n.], 1850), by Robert Burford, H. C. Selous, and Lieut Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of Messrs Marshall's grand peristrephic panorama of the Polar regions [electronic resource] : which displays the north coast of Spitzbergen, Baffin's Bay, Arctic Highlands, &c., now exhibiting in the large new circular wooden building, George's Square, Glasgow ; painted from drawings taken by Lieut. Beechey who accompanied the Polar Expedition in 1818 ; and Messrs. Ross and Saccheuse, who accompanied the expedition to discover a North-West passage. (Leith, Scotland : Printed by William Heriot ..., 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical summary of the search for Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1853?]), by A. Petermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communications on a North-West passage and further survey of the Northern coast of America [electronic resource] : received by the Committee of the Royal Geographical Society appointed 8th February, 1836, to examine them : read, 23d February, 8th and 22d March, 1836. ([S.l. : s.n., 1836?]), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Cook's third and last voyage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. (London : Printed for John Fielding ... and John Stockdale, [1785?]), by James Cook and James King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisième voyage de Cook ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la mer Pacifique du sud et du nord [ressource électronique] : en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780 / (A Paris : Chez Pissot, pere & fils ..., Laporte ..., 1782), by John Rickman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professor Sonntag's thrilling narrative of the Grinnell Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1853, 1854, and 1855 [electronic resource] : in search of Sir John Franklin, under the command of Dr. E. K. Kane, U.S.N. : containing the history of all previous explorations of the Arctic Ocean, fromthe year 1618 ... highly important astromonical observations ... with nearly one hundred splendid engravings / (Philadelphia; Cincinnati : J.T. Lloyd, [c1857]), by August Sonntag and Charles C. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the "Dobbs Galley" and "California" in the years 1746 and 1747 for discovering a North West Passage [electronic resource] : with an accurate survey of the country together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / (Dublin : Printed for George and Alexander Ewing ..., 1749), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reize naar de Baai van Hudson ter ontdekkinge van eenen Noord-Wester doortogt [electronic resource] : gedaan in de jaaren 1746, en 1747 met de schepen de Dobbs-Galley en de California; met eene naauwkeurige beschryving der kust, eene korte natuurlyke historie van het land, en een klaar vertoog der bewys-stukken en redenen de welke dienen om de waarschynlykheid aan te toonen dat zulk een doortogt in 't vervolg zal gevonden woorden / (Te Leiden : Ter Druk. van Elias Luzac, Jun. ..., 1750), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descobertas e aventuras nos mares e regiSoes polares [electronic resource] / ([Pernambuco, Brazil? : s.n.], 1862), by John Leslie and Robert Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kane, der Nordpolfahrer [electronic resource] : Arktische Fahrten und Entdeckungen der zweiten Grinnell-Expedition zur Aufsuching Sir John Franklin's in den Jahren 1853, 1854 und 1855 unter Dr. Elisha Kent Kane / (Leipzig : O. Spamer, 1867), by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parry's voyage of discovery [electronic resource]. ([S.l. : s.n., 1821?]), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan for promoting the fur trade, and securing it to this country, by uniting the operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay companys [electronic resource] / (London : Printed by George Bigg, 1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forgery detected [electronic resource] : by which is evinced how groundless are all the calumnies cast upon the editor, in a pamphlet published under the name of Arthur Dobbs, Esq. / (London : Printed for M. Cooper ... and G. Brett ..., 1745), by Christopher Middleton and Arthur Dobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticia historica de las expediciones hechas por los españoles en busca del paso del noroeste de la América [electronic resource] / (Madrid : En la Imprenta Real, 1802), by Martín Fernández de Navarrete and Jose Espinosa y Tello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaggio dal mare Atlantico al Pacifico per la via del Nordovest [electronic resource] : fatto dal capitano Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado l'anno MDLXXXVIII [i.e. 1588] / ([S.l. : s.n.], 1810), by Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific [electronic resource] : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper under the orders of William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and commander of the expedition. (London : J. Murray, 1821), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of Hudson's Bay [electronic resource] : being the remarks of Captain W. Coats, in many voyages to that locality, between the years 1727 and 1751 : with an appendix containing extracts from the log of Capt. Middleton on his voyage for the discovery of the North-west passage in H.M.S. Furnace in 1741-2 / (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1852), by William Coats, Christopher Middleton, John Barrow, and Hakluyt Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] : a narrative of the circumstances and causes which led to the failure of the searching expeditions sent by government and others for the rescue of Sir John Franklin / (London : Longmans, Green, Brown & Longmans, 1855), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic seas [electronic resource] : a narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions / (Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific [electronic resource] : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and commander to the expedition. (London : J. Murray, 1824), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of Henry Hudson, the navigator [electronic resource] / (Brooklyn [N.Y.] : [s.n.], 1867), by G. M. Asher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted [electronic resource] / (New York : Published by James Eastburn & Co. ..., Abraham Paul, printer, 1818), by Daines Barrington and Mark Beaufoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reasons to shew, that there is a great probability of a navigable passage to the western American ocean, through Hudson's Streights, and Chesterfield Inlet [electronic resource] : from the observations made on board the ships sent upon the late discovery ; supported by affidavits, which coincides with several former accounts : humbly offered to the consideration of Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. (London : Printed for J. Robinson ..., 1749) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to John Barrow, Esq. on the subject of the polar expedition, or, The reviewer reviewed [electronic resource] / (London : James Ridgeway ..., 1819), by John Ross and John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Access to an open polar sea in connection with the search after Sir John Franklin and his companions [electronic resource] / (New York : Baker, Godwin, 1853), by Elisha Kent Kane and American Geographical and Statistical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic Regions [electronic resource] : undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific : from the earliest periods of Scandinavian navigation to the departure of the recent expeditions under the orders of captains Ross and Buchan / (London : J. Murray, 1818), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greenland, the adjacent seas and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / (New York : Published by James Eastburn and Co. ... Clayton and Kingsland, Printers, 1818), by Bernard O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The North-West Passage and the fate of Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] / (Woolwich [England] : W.P. Jackson, 1860), by James Alexander Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bibliographical miscellany [electronic resource] / (London : J.R. Smith, 1859), by John Petheram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt en van verschiedene landreizen in de noordpool-gewesten [electronic resource] : ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart / (Zutphen [Netherlands] : W.J. Thieme, 1837), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of discovery and research within the Arctic regions from the year 1818 to the present time [electronic resource] : under the command of the several naval officers employed by sea and land in search of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific with two attempts to reach the North Pole / (London : J. Murray, 1846), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817 / (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1818), by Bernard O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arctic searching expedition [electronic resource] : a journal of a boat voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin : with an appendix on the physical geography of North America / (London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Discovery of the Northwest Passage [electronic resource]. ([S.l. : Harper's?, 18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miscellanies [electronic resource] / (London : Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White, 1781), by Daines Barrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage à la baye de Hudson fait en 1746 et 1747 par les navires le Dobbs-Galley & la California, pour la découverte d'un passage au nord-ouest [ressource électronique] : avec une description exacte de la côte, un abrégé de l'histoire naturelle du pays & un exposé net des faits & des argumens qui servent à prouver la probabilité de trouver dans la suite ce passage / (Leiden [Pays-Bas] : De l'impr. d'Elie Luzac, fils, 1750), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise nach Hudsons Meerbusen [electronic resource] : welche von zweyen englischen Schiffen der Dobbs-Galley und California in den Jahren 1746 und 1747 wegen Entdeckung einer nord-westlichen Durchfahrt in die Süd-See verrichtet worden : nebst einer richtigen Abzeichnung der Küste und einer kurzen Naturgeschichte des Landes, Beschreibung der Einwohner, auch einer wahren Vorstellung der Umstände und Gründe welche die künftige Erfindung einer solchen Durchfahrt wahrscheinlich machen / (Göttingen [Germany] : Verlegts Abram Vandenhoek, 1750), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zweite Reise zur Entdeckung der nordwestlichen Durchfahrt der kö niglich Grossbritannischen Schiffe Fury und Hecla in den Jahren 1821, 1822, 1823 [electronic resource] / (Jena : Bran, 1824), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. Knt. to the Arctic regions [electronic resource] : for the discovery of a north west passage; performed in the years 1829-30-31-32 and 33 : to which is prefixed an abridgement of the former voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry, & other celebrated navigators to the northern latitudes : compiled from authentic information and original documents, transmitted by William Light, purser' s steward to the expedition : illustrated by engravings from drawings taken on the spot / (Saint John, N.B. : [s.n., 18--?-1868?]), by Robert Huish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise zur Entdeckung einer nordwestlichen Durchfahrt [electronic resource] : von den königlich Grossbritannischen Schiffen der Hecla und dem Griper / (Jena : In der Bran'schen Buchhandlung, 1821), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions &c., 1577, worthily atchieved by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and generall [electronic resource] : with a description of the people there inhabiting, and other circumstances notable / ([Providence, R.I. : s.n., 1868]), by Dionyse Settle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage de la baye de Hudson [ressource électronique] : fait en 1746 & 1747, pour la découverte du passage de nord-ouest, contenant une description des côtes & l'histoire naturelle du pays, avec une relation historique de toutes les expéditions faites jusqu'ici pour la découverte d'un passage plus court aux Indes Orientales, & des preuves évidentes de la réalité de ce passage / (A Paris : Chez Ballard fils, imprimeur libraire ..., 1749), by Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the northwest coast [electronic resource] / (San Francisco : History Co., 1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisieme voyage abrégé du capitaine Cook, dans l'océan Pacifique; avec une carte générale & l'estampe représentatant la mort de ce capitaine; ou Histoire des dernieres découvertes dans la mer du sud, pendant les années 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780 [ressource électronique]. (A Paris : Chez Moutard ..., 1785), by James Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [electronic resource] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history / (London; Edinburgh : T. Nelson, 1851), by John Leslie, Hugh Murray, and Robert Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages in the Arctic seas, from 1821 to 1825, for the discovery of a north-west passage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource]. ([Dublin? : s.n.], 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage vers le pôle arctique dans la baie de Baffin, fait en 1818, par les vaisseaux de Sa Majesté l'Isabelle et l'Alexandre [ressource électronique] : commandés par le capitaine Ross et le lieutenant Parry, pour vérifier s' il existe un passage au nord-ouest de l'océan Atlantique dans la mer du Pacifique / (Paris : Librairie de Gide fils ..., 1819), by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur le passage par le nord [ressource électronique] : qui contient aussi des réflexions sur les glaces / (Paris : Chez Valade, libraire-imprimeur, 1782), by duc de Croÿ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt en verschiedene landreizen in de nordpool gewesten [electronic resource] : ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart / (Zutphen [Netherlands] : W.J. Thieme, 1836), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The worldes hydrographical discription [sic] [electronic resource] : wherein is proued not onely by aucthoritie of writers, but also by late experience of trauellers and reasons of substantiall probabilitie, that the worlde in all his zones, clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable without any naturall anoyance to hinder the same; whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Philippina and India, by northerly nauigation to the renowne, honour and benifit of Her Maiesties state, and communalty. ([London : R.H. Evans?, 1812]), by John Davys and Richard Hakluyt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisième voyage de Cook ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la mer Pacifique du sud & du nord [ressource électronique] : en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780 / (A Paris : Chez Belin ..., 1783), by John Rickman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages that have been attempted to discover a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean [electronic resource] / ([S.l.] : Printed from stone in the Quarter Masr. General's Office, Horse Guards, 1818), by J. Wyld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage of discovery, to the Arctic regions, performed between the 4th of April and the 18th of November, 1818, in His Majesty's ship Alexander, Wm. Edw. Parry, Esq. lieut. and commander [electronic resource] / (London : Printed for Richard Phillips; by G. Sidney ..., [1819?]), by Alexander Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential address before the Royal Society of Canada, with papers from the Transactions [electronic resource] / (Montreal : Dawson, 1890), by Sandford Fleming and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New route from Europe to the interior of North America [electronic resource] : with a description of Hudson's Bay and straits / ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1881), by Nelson Valley Railway and Transportation Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigatio, septentrionalis, det er, Relation eller bescriffuelse, om seiglads oc reyse, paa denne Nordvestiske Passagie, som nu kaldis Nova Dania, igiennem Fretum Christian at opsøge : huilcken reyse, voris allernaadigste herre Konning Christian den Fierde, vdi det aar 1619, naadigst berammit : oc til des experientz afferdiget haffuer hans Majest. skibs captein Jens Munck oc hans methaffuendis folck, som offuer ale vare 64. personer, med tuende hans Majest. skibe, Enhiørningen oc jagten Lamprenen : med bemelding om alle circumstantier, curs, kasse oc tilfald, det farevand oc den reysis leilighed anrørendis / (Kiøbenhaffn : H. Waldkirch, 1624), by Jens Munk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions : during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 ; and the discovery of the northern magnetic pole / (London : G. W. M. Barnard, 1844), by John Ross and James Clark Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mer polaire [ressource électronique] : voyage de l'Erèbe et de la Terreure et expéditions à la recherche de Franklin / (Paris : Hachette, 1878), by Ferdinand de Lanoye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyages and works of John Davis, the navigator [electronic resource] / (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1880), by Albert Hastings Markham and John Davys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jens Munks navigatio septentrionalis [electronic resource] : med indledning, noter og kort. (Kjóbenhavn : Gyldendal (F. Hegel) :, 1883), by Jens Munk and P. Lauridsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of a view of the continent of Boothia [electronic resource] : discovered by Captain Ross in his late expedition to the polar regions : now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / ([London? : s.n.], 1884), by Robert Burford and James Clark Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The inland ocean of the North" [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 1888?]), by J. Macdonald Oxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the third voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage [electronic resource] / (London; Paris : Cassell, 1892), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] : the true secret of the discovery of his fate : a "revelation" / (London; Derby : Bemrose, 1890), by J. Henry Skewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parry's third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1824 and 1825 [electronic resource] : with an account of the Esquimaux / (London; Glasgow : Blackie, 1894), by William Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir John Franklin [electronic resource] : the true secret of the discovery of his fate : a "revelation" : "a little child shall lead them" / (London : Derby : Bemrose, 1889), by J. Henry Skewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des deux voyages entrepris par ordre du gouvernement anglais; l'un par terre dirigé par le capitaine Franklin; l'autre par mer, sous les ordres du capitaine Parry, pour la découverte d'un passage de l'Ocean Atlantique dans la Mer Pacifique. Traduit de l'anglais. Avec une carte des régions polaires, où se trouvent tracées les routes de ces deux voyageurs et leurs découvertes. (Paris, Gide fils, 1824), by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret, G. F. Lyon, and John Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Far North: Exploration in the Arctic Regions, by Elisha Kent Kane (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772: New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations, by Samuel Hearne, ed. by Joseph Burr Tyrrell, contrib. by Edmund Walker (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions, by Francis Leopold M'Clintock, contrib. by Roderick Impey Murchison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, by William Edward Parry, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2, by John Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1, by John Franklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2, by William Edward Parry (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Journey to the Polar Sea, by John Franklin, contrib. by Robert Falcon Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1, by William Edward Parry (Gutenberg ebook)
• A brief discourse of a passage by the North-pole to Japan, China, &c. pleaded by three experiments, and answers to all objections that can be urged against a passage that way ... with a map of all the discovered lands neerest to the pole / by Jospeh Moxon ... (London : Printed for Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop ..., 1674), by Joseph Moxon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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