Author: SCORESBY, WILLIAM; JACKSON, C. IAN.
Title: The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Edited by C. Ian Jackson. [With Appendices by George Huxtable and Fred M. Walker.] The Hakluyt Society. Series III. Volumes 12, 20 and 21. Three Volume Set.
Description: First Editions; Super Royal 8vo; Vol. I. pp. lxii, 242; 5 maps, 9 illustrated plates; Vol. II. pp. xxxviii, 308; 3 maps, 9 illustrated plates; Vol. III. pp. xlii, 245; 3 maps, 8 illustrated plates; in each volume list of works cited, index of whaling vessels, and general index, all bound in original blue cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, gilt decoration on front boards, dustjackets, fine set. (Complete sets are very hard to find). London; The Hakluyt Society; 2003, 2008, & 2009. The three volumes are of the unpublished journal kept by William Scoresby (1789-1857) of his voyages to the Arctic, first in the whaler Resolution and later in the Fame. He expanded the logs of his Arctic voyages into lengthy journals that contain scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation, whaling and the various landings.

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