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HOOPER, William Hulme (1827-1854). Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski. London: John Murray 1853. The first edition, an endearing narrative of the HMS Plover Franklin Search expedition of 1848-1851. Hooper's health was irreversibly weakened by three Arctic winters and he wrote this narrative to relieve his own boredom while bedridden in London. He described befriending Chukchi children and one of the text illustrations is his own portrait: "a specimen of Tuski drawing, being in fact my Likeness, drawn by Enoch, the Canny lad. Like most portraits, it is too flattering" (p. 211). Arctic Bib. 7395; Lada-Mocarski 140; TPL 3176; Tourville 2177; Wickersham 6591. Octavo (222 x 140mm). Half-title, 2-pp advertisements at end dated June, 1853. 4 duotone lithographed plates; 2 other plates; a folding colored map; and text illustrations (mild toning, light spotting at ends). Publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt (recased, some glue residue to hinges). Provenance : Tyrrell's Pty, Sydney (inkstamp to f.f.e.) – High Latitude, Bainbridge Island.