Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery: Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of

by William Scoresby and Friedrich Kries

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William Scoresby junior (1789-1857), explorer, scientist, and later Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he was just ten years old. The son of Arctic whaler and navigator William Scoresby of Whitby, he spent nearly every summer for twenty years at a Greenland whale fishery. He made significant discoveries in Arctic geography, meteorology, oceanography, and magnetism, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108041329

ISBN13:9781108041324

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:542 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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