Author: William SCORESBY (the Younger.)
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Books about An Account of the Arctic Regions
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Pages: 310
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William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ’the
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Books about An Account of the Arctic Regions
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Nineteenth century classic on whaling, geography and natural history of northern waters. Appendices include meteorological tables; a chronological list of voyages, 861-1819; list of plants found in Spitsbergen; Acts of Parliament regarding whaling; dimensions of whaling ships; etc.
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Books about An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-fishery
