Cloth binding. Black lettering with gilt title on front cover.

Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1824-25 in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Fury, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry… London (1826)

Sir William Edward Parry FRS (19 December 1790 – 8 July 1855) was an Anglo-Welsh explorer of the Arctic best known for his 1819–1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage.

In 1827, Parry attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole. He reached 82° 45′ N, setting a record for human exploration Farthest North that stood for nearly five decades before being surpassed at 83° 20′ N by Albert Hastings Markham in 1875.

Parry’s character was influenced by his religiousness, and besides the journals of his different voyages he also wrote a Lecture to Seamen, and Thoughts on the Parental Character of God. He was noted as “an evangelical [Christian] and an ardent advocate of moral reform in the navy.”

Parry also pioneered the use of canning techniques for food preservation on his Arctic voyages. However, his techniques were not infallible: in 1939 viable spores of certain heat-resistant bacteria were found in canned roast veal that had travelled with Parry to the Arctic Circle in 1824.

The crater Parry on the Moon was named after him, as were Parry County, New South Wales, Parry Sound, Ontario, and the optical phenomenon Parry arc, documented by him during the 1819–1821 expedition.

In 1930, a large sandstone rock at Winter Harbour on Melville Island marking Parry’s 1819 wintering site, approximately 5.5-metre-long (18 ft) and 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.

Parry Street in Cooks Hill is named after him to due to his work at the A A Company.