The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger/ Volume II / the Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 (Hakluyt Society, Third Series)

Scoresby, William/ Jackson, C. Ian (EDT)

Hakluyt Society（2009/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 346 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780904180923
• DDC分類 919.804

基本説明

These lengthy journals combine scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of nagivation and whaling, and exemplify the dangers and dramas inherent in sailing to the edge of the Arctic ice.

Full Description

This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As before, these lengthy journals combine scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling. They also continue to demonstrate the competence and confidence of Scoresby which were evident from the moment he assumed command of the Resolution in 1811. However, each of the journals also shows the dangers inherent in what might otherwise seem to be routine annual sailings to the Greenland Sea in latitudes 78o to 80o N.

Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction: The voyages; Charles Steward; Scoresby's personal and religious development; Scoresby the scientist; Conclusion. The Journals of William Scoresby the Younger and Charles Steward: Journal of 1814; Journal of Charles Steward of 1814; Journal of 1815; Journal of 1816; Appendix: Scoresby's Navigation, by George Huxtable; Works cited; Index.