{"product_id":"2940148369141","title":"Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal","description":"Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal;\u003cbr\u003eOr, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features\u003cbr\u003e • illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • linked Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eI fear with the many of my cloth, my crime in writing a book will be an unpardonable one; the more so, that I cannot conscientiously declare, that it has been at the urgent desire of my friends, \u0026amp;c., that I have thus made my début.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy motive is twofold: to tell of the doings of a screw steam-vessel, the first ever tried in the Polar regions, and by a light, readable description of incidents in the late search for Sir John Franklin, to interest the general reader and the community at large upon that subject. Without fear, favour, or affection, I have told facts as they have occurred; and I trust have, in doing so, injured no man. A journal must necessarily be, for the most, a dry narration of facts; I have, therefore, thrown in here and there general observations and remarks founded upon such facts, rather than a dry repetition of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the officers and men serving under my command, I can offer no higher compliment than in having thus placed their severe and zealous labours before the public; and no professional reader who reads these \"Stray Leaves,\" can fail, I am certain, to perceive how heavily must have fallen the labours here recounted upon the men and officers of the steam tenders, and how deep an obligation I their commander must be under to them for their untiring exertions, by which this, the first and severe trial of steam in the Arctic regions, was brought to a successful issue. \u003cbr\u003e...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003eLIEUT. SHERARD OSBORN, COMMANDING H.M.S. VESSEL, \"PIONEER\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Sherard Osborn (1822 – 1875), was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer.\" --Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072756859120,"sku":"2940148369141","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148369141_p0.jpg?v=1763708453","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148369141","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}