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The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789-1857) - Volume III: the Voyages of 1817, 1818 And 1820 by C. Ian Jackson (Editor); William Scoresby
$35.00 NZD
Category: Antarctica & the Sub-Antarctic | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
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 It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales in 1817 led to a break with the ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
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, ...Show more
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