💎 The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852–1854 - Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska aboard HMS Plover in the Search for Sir John Franklin (Complete Two-Volume Set)

This two-volume Hakluyt Society publication presents Maguire’s detailed account of the voyage of HMS Plover (1852–1854), stationed at Point Barrow, Alaska, as part of the wider search for Sir John Franklin’s lost Arctic expedition. The journal records not only naval operations and exploration strategies in the Arctic, but also some of the earliest sustained contact between European officers and the Inuit communities of northern Alaska.

Edited by John Bockstoce, this authoritative edition includes extensive scholarly commentary, maps, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index, providing essential historical context on Arctic exploration, whaling routes, and nineteenth-century polar science.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series Nos. 169–170, 1988. Complete two-volume set. Illustrated with maps. With bibliography and index. Linen hardcovers with dust jackets. In mint condition.