First edition. Folding map. Half leather, upper wrapper bound in. xii, 196pp. Gnadau, 1855.
An extremely uncommon first hand account of the Franklin search through the Bering straits by the interpreter on H.M.S. Investigator, written in diary form. “His great service to the expedition was as its historian…Miertsching achieves the “truth of poetry” by a convincing representation of the atmosphere of the voyage” (Neatby, by whom the journal was translated in Frozen Ships, a copy of which is included). See also http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-2-334.pdf