Excursions in and about Newfoundland, during the Years 1839 and 1840 - Volume 1
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108030890
ISBN-13
9781108030892
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 11th, 2011
Print length
338 Pages
Weight
438 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.90 x 2.20 cms
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The geologist Joseph Beete Jukes (1811–1869) was sent on a mineral-prospecting mission to Newfoundland in 1839. He published this two-volume account of the expedition in 1842. Volume 1 describes Jukes' arrival in Newfoundland, its rugged landscapes, and the daily life of settlers in its coastal fishing communities.
Joseph Beete Jukes (1811–1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839, after many field expeditions in England, he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland, a place about which he had until then been in 'utter ignorance'. The explorers failed to find the hoped-for mineral wealth they had been sent to prospect for, and returned to Britain. In 1841 Jukes joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to chart the coasts of Australia and New Guinea. The Fly set sail for the Pacific in 1842, the year in which this two-volume account of Jukes' Newfoundland experiences was published. Volume 1 describes Jukes' arrival in Newfoundland, its rugged landscapes, and life in the fishing communities of this harsh North Atlantic outpost.
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