Memorials of the Sea : Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN-10
1108081797
ISBN-13
9781108081795
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 2019
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
14.20 x 21.60 x 1.40 cms
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British & Irish historyEuropean history
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This account, published in 1851, of William Scoresby (1760–1829), a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, was written by his son as one of his 'Memorials of the Sea'. William, Jr, a scientist and later a clergyman, had begun his career on his father's ships.
Son of an Arctic whaler, William Scoresby (1789–1857) made the first of many voyages to northern latitudes when he was just ten years old. Later a scientist and clergyman, he wrote on a wide range of topics, and his observations on the Arctic prompted further exploration of the region. He published some of his accounts under the generic title 'Memorials of the Sea' (his 1835 notes on murder at sea and on the fate of the Franklin expedition have also been reissued in this series). In this 1851 book, Scoresby recounts the life of his father, also William (1760–1829), from his earliest days to his later life as a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, at a time when the industry gave rise to extreme danger but also offered enormous financial rewards. William, Jr's biography is also available in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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