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Houston, C. Stuart, Editor.
Arctic Artist. The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822.
Montreal & Kingston McGill-Queen's University Press [0-7735-1181-4] 1995, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) xxvii,403pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Small Quarto in original black cloth, light grey endpapers and dust jacket with colour and B&W plates and B&W illustrations in text from drawings (including maps). Signed on title page by Houston. "Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of...Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back's prose captures the drama of his journey, and his superb watercolor sketches reveal the beauty...Back's journal completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers...". Commentary by I. S. MacLaren.
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