8vo. With folding route map & 7 engraved plates. (Some light spotting to first and last few leaves.) Original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt. Provenance: James Farmer (signature); Henry D. and Mary J. Couchman (bookplate).FIRST EDITION. In 1875, the American journalist MacGahan travelled with British explorer Sir Allan William Young on his steam yacht HMS Pandora on an expedition to try to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The expedition got as far as Peel Sound in the Canadian Arctic before it met pack ice and was forced to return. The book also includes an earlier account of Young's earlier travels on the McClintock Expedition of 1857-59 in the 'Fox', on which he made an 800-mile sledge journey (the first printed account of this journey). Arctic Bibliography 10616. A Fine Copy. RARE.