The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1821-1823

xvii, [3], 297 pp. Introduction and illustrations by James A. Houston, reproduction of large fold-out map. A reissue of the work originally published in 1824, containing the "[a]uthor's record of the second Parry expedition to Canadian arctic waters in the Fury and Hecla, 1821-23; events of the outward voyage to Winter Island (Foxe Channel) 1821, and north through Foxe Basin to Iglulik Island, 1822. Includes detailed account of the Eskimos of southern Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula; the natural history and ice conditions of the region traversed, particularly a difficult passage through Hudson Strait." (Arctic Bibliography 10531).