[PDF] The Arctic Regions And The Northern Whale Fishery Classic Reprint eBook

Author : William Scoresby
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2015-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781331999799

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Excerpt from The Arctic Regions and the Northern Whale-Fishery The question of the existence of a navigable communication between the European and the Chinese seas, by the north, is one which has been long in agitation without being resolved, and has been often revived, with the most sanguine expectations of success, to be again abandoned as hopeless. The first attempts to reach China by sea, were made by steering along the coast of Africa toward the south, and the next, by proceeding from the European shore in a westerly direction. The former, which first proved successful, was accomplished by Vasquez de Gama, a Portuguese, in the year 1497-8;and the latter was undertaken by the renowned navigator, Columbus, in 1492. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Scoresby
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780282262006

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Excerpt from An Account of the Arctic Regions, Vol. 1: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-FisheryNumerous authorities have been consulted in preparing these sheets for publication. And in all cases, as far as I am aware, a proper reference has been made to the works from which any infor mation has been derived. For a small but inte resting Memoire by M. S. B. J. Noel, Sur l'an tiquite de la peche de la Baleine, from which I have drawn some valuable historical information, I was indebted to the kindness of M. Noel de la Moriniere, author of an extensive work on An cient and Modern Fisheries, now in the course of publication in France. Access to some valuable works which I had not in my own possession.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. Scoresby Jun
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780266326410

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Excerpt from An Account of the Arctic Regions, Vol. 1 of 2: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery Numerous authorities have been consulted in preparing these sheets for publication, and in all cases, as far as I am aware, a proper reference has been made to the works from which any infor mation has been derived. For a small but inte resting Memoz're by M. S. B. J. Noel, Sur l'an tiquite de la pecize de la; Baleine, from which I have drawn some valuable historical information, I was indebted to the kindness of M. Noel de la 'moriniere, author of an extensive work on An cient and Modern Fisheries, now in the course of publication in France. Access to some valuable works which I had not in my own possession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. Scoresby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781333860974

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Excerpt from An Account of the Arctic Regions, Vol. 2 of 2: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery In various ancient authors, we have accounts of whales as an Object Of pursuit; and by some nations held in high estimation as an article of food. Pas sing over the notices of these animals by the classic authors as Obj ects of peculiar dread, or as prognostics of peculiar events, I proceed to the consideration of those which mention the whale in the way of fish cry or capture, as my more immediate Object 9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Scoresby
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Arctic regions
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Nineteenth century classic on whaling, geography and natural history of northern waters. Appendices include meteorological tables; a chronological list of voyages, 861-1819; list of plants found in Spitsbergen; Acts of Parliament regarding whaling; dimensions of whaling ships; etc.

Author : William Scoresby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2018-11-03
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ISBN : 9781396845581

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Excerpt from The Northern Whale-Fishery The following pages are an abridgment, with some modificatior/is and additions, of the second volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby's work on the °arctic Regions and Whale - fishery, Edinburgh, 1820; the sub stance of the former Volume having already appeared in this Monthly Series. The second chapter of the work, on the comparative View of the whale-fisheries of different European nations, has been entirely omitted, as less interesting, it is supposed, to the general reader, than the other chapters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Scoresby
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2013-12
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ISBN : 9781314848038

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.