1st Edition. xxvii,403pp. Small quarto in original black cloth, gild lettering on spine, light grey endpapers. Fine dust jacket. Colour and B&W plates and B&W illustrations in text from drawings (including maps). Fine condition. fine Signed on title page by C. Stuart Houston with inscription for Don and Maureen Somers (dated April 4, 1995). Back's account of Franklin's first overland expedition 1819-1822 based on his journals, sketches and watercolours.