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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-10 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-26 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. Dur
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Routledge
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger is the first of three projected volumes of the unpublished journals kept by William Scoresby (1789-1
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from court
Language: en
Pages: 449
Pages: 449
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-14 - Publisher: Yale University Press
From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John
