An Account of the Arctic Regions : With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery Paperback / softback
by William Scoresby
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration series
Paperback / softback
Description
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789–1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820.
Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to his father.
He became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study of Arctic currents and waves.
He surveyed 400 miles of the Greenland coast in 1822.
This account was the first book published in Britain which was devoted solely to the whale fisheries.
Volume 1 is a general geographical survey of the Arctic region and includes detailed observations of polar ice conditions, atmospherology, and zoology.
The book also considers the much-debated question of northern sea communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:670 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 1 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781108037785
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:670 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 1 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108037785
