Distant Unsurveyed Country Baffin Island Whaling Arctic Exploration History Used Book

This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58

By W. Gillies Ross 

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1997. Hardcover with jacket. 258 pages. Book is in very good used condition. Light scuffing on jacket. A bit of dust on top page edge. An account of the 1857 arctic whaling voyage undertaken by Captain William Penny and his wife, Margaret as told through Margaret's journal and W. Gillies Ross's knowledgeable insights.