William Scoresby

An Account of the Arctic Regions - Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1820 account of the Arctic regions was the first book on whaling to be published in Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 670
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 931g
• ISBN-13: 9781108037785
• ISBN-10: 110803778X
• Artikelnr.: 34450352

Inhaltsangabe

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.