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pp. 403, signed by the author. “‘Arctic Artist’ is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin’s tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back’s prose captures the drama of this journey, and his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Back’s journal completes Stuart Houston’s trilogy of the journals of Franklin’s officers, and is particularly valuable because it is the only journal that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Houston provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the expedition recorded in the various journals of the Hudson’s Bay fur trade pots.” Ex-lib, with book plates, and poclet at rear ep.