In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few women to break with tradition, becoming the first European woman to winter at Baffin Island. Incorporating the journal she kept during the expedition with commentary by W. Gillies Ross, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country recreates ...
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In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few women to break with tradition, becoming the first European woman to winter at Baffin Island. Incorporating the journal she kept during the expedition with commentary by W. Gillies Ross, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country recreates nineteenth-century Baffin Island for the modern reader and provides a unique perspective on arctic whaling, the Canadian Arctic, and the interaction between Inuit and European culture at the time of the voyage.
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Good in Fine jacket. A Good or better copy (owner's name) in dark blue cloth lettered in silver, in a Fine dust jacket. Brief light pencil underlining and marginalia, little cover wear, and not ex-library.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1997 publication with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Light wear to edges and corners of dust jacket; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
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Fine. 1st edition. xli, 258 pp. Dark blue cloth with silver title on spine in a fine dustjacket, Octavo with black and white illustrations in text. A complimentary copy from the Marketing Department of McGill-Queen's University Press. Fine condition An account of a winter whaling voyage to the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1857-58 aboard the 'Lady Franklin' by Margaret Penny, the Captains's wife.