British Arctic whaling logbooks and journals: a provisional listing
ABSTRACT This paper lists accounts of whaling voyages to the Arctic from British ports, dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries, that are available as logbooks, journals or publications for study in British, Canadian or United States public institutions. Included are all original whaling...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247408007432 2024-03-03T08:41:31+00:00 British Arctic whaling logbooks and journals: a provisional listing Brown, Sidney Credland, Arthur Savours, Ann Stonehouse, Bernard 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247408007432 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247408007432 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 44, issue 4, page 311-320 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2008 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247408007432 2024-02-08T08:41:44Z ABSTRACT This paper lists accounts of whaling voyages to the Arctic from British ports, dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries, that are available as logbooks, journals or publications for study in British, Canadian or United States public institutions. Included are all original whaling logbooks and journals located by the authors, mainly but not exclusively from previous listings, plus early publications by whaling masters, mates, surgeons and others in the trade containing details of particular voyages, and later accounts based on edited versions of holograph manuscripts. Records of whaling voyages are of intrinsic historical and sociological value, and many include data on weather and sea ice conditions that are of particular relevance to current studies of climatic variation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Record Sea ice Cambridge University Press Arctic Polar Record 44 4 311 320 |
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ABSTRACT This paper lists accounts of whaling voyages to the Arctic from British ports, dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries, that are available as logbooks, journals or publications for study in British, Canadian or United States public institutions. Included are all original whaling logbooks and journals located by the authors, mainly but not exclusively from previous listings, plus early publications by whaling masters, mates, surgeons and others in the trade containing details of particular voyages, and later accounts based on edited versions of holograph manuscripts. Records of whaling voyages are of intrinsic historical and sociological value, and many include data on weather and sea ice conditions that are of particular relevance to current studies of climatic variation. |
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