Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery : including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822 in the ship Baffin of Liverpool / by William Scoresby, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scoresby, William, 1789-1857.

Contributor:

Giesecke, Carl Ludwig, 1761-1833.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whaling.

Natural history--Greenland.

Natural history.

Greenland--Discovery and exploration.

Greenland.

Greenland--Description and travel.

Greenland--Maps.

Baffin (Ship).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliii, 472 p., [8] leaves of plates ) ill., 2 maps (fold.), plan ;

Other Title:

Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1823.

Contents:

List of specimens of the rocks brought from the eastern coast of Greenland, with geological memoranda / Professor Jameson

Lists of plants from the east coast of Greenland, with some remarks / Dr. Hooker

List of animals met with on the east coast of West Greenland, with notes and memoranda

Meteorological table

Journal of proceedings on board of the Hercules of Aberdeen, Captain Thomas Fairburn, on the east coast of West Greenland, from the 22d of August to the 11th of September, 1822

Journal of proceedings on board of the Trafalgar of Hull, Captain Lloyd, on the east coast of West Greenland, from the 12th to the 31st of August, 1822

Table of latitudes and longitudes of headlands, bays and islands on the eastern coast of Greenland

Remarks on the structure of Greenland in support of the opinion of its being as assemblage of islands and not a continent / Sir Charles Giesecke

Explanation fo some of the technical terms made use of in the journal.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.

Sabin no. 78171.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG05-B10035

OCLC:

85801772