Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby, the Younger
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- Author(s) Jackson, C Ian (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003-9
- Pages 3 vols
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing for Hakluyt Society
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Transcriptions of the journals of the annual voyages to the Greenland Sea, 1811-20, of William Scoresby, held in Whitby Museum. Each volume carries an introduction, that for Volume 1 [xxi-lxi] covering interalia : Scoresby family; Whitby and the whaling industry in the early 19th century; the whaling process; whaling in wartime; 'Father and son - the Scoresbys and their ships, 1811-13'; 'Open and close season'; 'Scoresby's navigation'