Sargent, Epes <br/><br/>
The wonders of the Arctic world :  a history of all the researches and discoveries in the frozen regions of the North, from the earliest times : with sketches of the Cabots, Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, Franklin, Parry, Back, Rae, McClintock, Kane, Hayes, Hall, and others, who in their perilous explorations defied hunger, cold, untold sufferings and death itself to reveal the mysteries of this wonderful portion of the globe /  
by Epes Sargent, Esq. ; together with a complete and reliable history of the Polaris expedition / by William H. Cunnington, special correspondent of the Philadelphia Age. 
 - Philadelphia :  Philadelphia Book Company,  John E. Potter & Company,  1873. 
 - 651 p.  ill., plates, portraits   20 cm. 
 - 910.3(98) (NLA) .
<br/><br/>  History of exploration, particularly North American arctic, and search for North-west Passage. Section on Hall's Polaris expedition (p.568-651) contains lengthy extracts from diary of John Harron, steward of Polaris. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Polaris (Ship)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discoveries in geography
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>910.3(98) (NLA)