William Scoresby

An Account of the Arctic Regions 2 Volume Set: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery

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Produktbeschreibung

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 geographical survey of the region and includes information on ice conditions, weather and zoology. Volume 2 focuses on the fisheries and includes a history of whaling. The book ends with an account of an 1816 whaling expedition.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection -
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1300
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 75mm
• Gewicht: 1651g
• ISBN-13: 9781108037808
• ISBN-10: 1108037801
• Artikelnr.: 34571714

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Preface; 1. Remarks on the celebrated question, of the existence
of a sea-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the
north; with an account of the progress of discovery in the Northern
Regions; 2. Descriptive account of some of the Polar countries; 3.
Hydrographical survey of the Greenland Sea; 4. An account of the Greenland
or Polar ice; 5. Observations on the atmospherology of the Arctic regions;
particularly relating to Spitzbergen and the adjacent Greenland Sea; 6. A
sketch of the zoology of the Arctic regions; Appendices. Volume 2: 1.
Chronological history of the northern whale-fisheries; 2. Comparative view
of the origin, progress, and present state of the whale-fisheries of
different European nations; 3. Situation of the early whale-fishery. Manner
in which it was conducted, and the alterations which have subsequently
taken place; 4. Account of the modern whale-fishery, as conducted at
Spitzbergen; 5. Account of the Davis' Strait whale-fishery, and a
comparison with that of Greenland, with statements of expences and profits
of a fishing ship; 6. Method of extracting oil and preparing whalebone, and
remarks on the uses to which the several products of the whale-fishery are
applied; 7. Narrative of proceedings on board of the ship Esk, during a
whale-fishing voyage to the coast of Spitzbergen, in the year 1816;
Appendix; Index.