Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby, the Younger

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Transcriptions of the journals of the annual voyages to the Greenland Sea, 1811-20, of William Scoresby, held in Whitby Museum. Each volume carries an introduction, that for Volume 1 [xxi-lxi] covering interalia : Scoresby family; Whitby and the whaling industry in the early 19th century; the whaling process; whaling in wartime; 'Father and son - the Scoresbys and their ships, 1811-13'; 'Open and close season'; 'Scoresby's navigation'