The 1806 log book, concerning the Arctic voyage of Captain William Scoresby
By: kept by William Scoresby Jr. ; foreword by J.G. Graham.
Contributors: Scoresby, William, 1760-1829; Scoresby, William, 1789-1857.
Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Whitby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Whaling; Arctic regions
Description: Reproduction of original log book of the Scoresbys' (father and son) farthest north sailing record which stood for many years. Records the day-to-day incidents of a typical wooden sailing ship engaged in the commercial enterprise of the Greenland whale fishery.
Notes: "By arrangement with the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society."