The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789-1857): Volume III: The Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820

ISBN-13: 9781032294179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

C. Ian Jackson; Fred M. Walker

Opis

This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820 and includes detailed descriptions of his landings. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80°N, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Glossary; Editorial note; Introduction: The Voyages: 1817; 1818; 1820; Scoresby's personal and religious life; Scoresby and Arctic exploration; Scientific recognition. The Journals of William Scoresby the Younger: Journal for 1817; Journal for 1818; Journal for 1819-1820. Appendix: the building of Arctic whalers, Fred M. Walker; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Ian Jackson was born in Keighly in 1935 and has geography degrees from London and McGill Universities. He was one of four wintering members of the Canadian International Geophysical Year expedition to northern Ellesmere Island in 1957-8 and his account of that year, Does Anyone Read Lake Hazen?, was published by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press in 2002. He taught at the London School of Economics from 1959 to 1969, and then occupied a series of environmental and policy planning positions in the Canadian Government in Ottawa. From 1978 to 1981 he was a member of the United Nations Secretariat in Geneva and New York and then Executive Director of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society at its head-quarters in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been a member of The Hakluyt Society since the 1960s, and has served on its Council. He is an Associate Fellow of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, and his volume in 2000 for the Champlain Society (Toronto) entitled Letters from the 49th Parallel, 1857-1873 was based on material in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. Volume I of the Scoresby journals appeared in 2003, Volume II in 2008.