Ad/ventures in the Arctic Regions. By H. W. G. Hyrst.
(Seeley and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Hyrst tells us that in this volume he chiefly deals with the less famous names of Arctic travel and explora- tion, "the men who, like the obscure craftsmen that laboured on Westminster Abbey, left behind them, not a name, but a monu- ment." Among these are Samuel Hearne, in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, who for four years prosecuted the search for a North-West Passage under the most difficult conditions Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross the Rocky Mountains; Ferdinand Baron von Wrangel, who made his way across Siberia; Benjamin Morrell, one of the earliest of Antarctic explorers ; and Captain Robert Macgnire, who had some exciting adventures among the Eskimos about the middle of the last century. The volume winds up with the discovery of the Franklin
relies by McClintock and Hobson. Altogether, this is a most readable volume, and it leaves a pleasant flavour, which all Arctic stories certainly do not
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