An Account of the Arctic Regions - Volume 2 Scoresby William
An Account of the Arctic Regions - Volume 2 Scoresby William Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first…
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An Account of the Arctic Regions - Volume 2 Scoresby William
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. He became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study of Arctic currents and waves. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to his father.
This account was the first book published in Britain which was devoted solely to the whale fisheries. He surveyed 400 miles of the Greenland coast in 1822. Volume 2 focuses on the fisheries and includes a history of whaling, the methods used to extract whale oil and prepare whalebone, and the impact of new developments.
The book ends with a detailed account of a whaling expedition in