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Author: Adam White
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Adam White
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Fedor F. Martens
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: John Russell Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Gosch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108012922
Category : Buss Island
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1897 volume contains accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland, two Danish (but piloted by the Englishman John Hall), and one led by Hall himself, with William Baffin as pilot. This is the first publication of Hall's report to the Danish king, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, which had only recently been rediscovered. The object of the expeditions was to re-establish communication with, and commercial exploitation of, what had formerly been a fertile region colonised by the Danes.
Author: William Scoresby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ’the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command’, his father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the Resolution to his son. Another ten years would see the publication of what has been described as ’one of the most remarkable books in the English language’, his two-volume An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (1820). Even before he took command of the Resolution, two developments had occurred that, when combined with his seamanship and whaling skill, were to make that book ’the foundation stone of Arctic science’ and cause the journals of his annual voyages to be remarkable accounts in their own right. First, Scoresby had studied, during two brief winters at the University of Edinburgh. Teachers such as John Playfair and Robert Jameson had made him aware of the scientific importance of his arctic experience. Together with Sir Joseph Banks, the president of the Royal Society, they encouraged him to observe, experiment and record, and provided opportunities for his data to be published. Secondly, this encouragement, and the study habits he developed at Edinburgh, led Scoresby to expand the logs of his arctic voyages into lengthy journals that contained scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling.
Author: Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373404247X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Reproduction of the original: The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon by Pedro de Cieza de Leon
