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The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (17891857) Volume II
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The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (17891857) Volume II (Hakluyt Society) Hardcover - 2008

by Ian Jackson

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  • Title The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (17891857) Volume II (Hakluyt Society)
  • Author Ian Jackson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 346
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hakluyt Society, London
  • Date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B01604
  • ISBN 9780904180923 / 0904180921
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Northern Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Arctic regions - Description and travel, Whaling - Arctic regions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004445100
  • Dewey Decimal Code 919.804

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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.

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