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An Account of the Arctic Regions - With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (Paperback)
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An Account of the Arctic Regions - With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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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
2 focuses on the fisheries and includes a history of whaling, the
methods used to extract whale oil and prepare whalebone, and the
impact of new developments. The book ends with a detailed account
of a whaling expedition in 1816.
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