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A voyage to Spitzbergen : containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North, of the Shetland Isles, and of the whale fishery

Title
A voyage to Spitzbergen : containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North, of the Shetland Isles, and of the whale fishery / by John Laing.
Author
Laing, John, surgeon.
Publication
Edinburgh : Printed for Adam Black, Printed by Balfour and Clarke, 1818.

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Description
165 p.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Zoology > Arctic regions
  • Spitsbergen Island (Norway) > Description and travel
  • Shetland (Scotland) > Description and travel
Note
  • With an appendix containing an historical account of the Dutch, English, and American whale fisheries; some important observations on the variation of the compass, &c.; and some extracts from Mr. Scoresby's paper on "Polar Ice."
Call Number
KBX (Laing, J. Voyage to Spitzbergen)
LCCN
05024458
OCLC
8516752
Author
Laing, John, surgeon.
Title
A voyage to Spitzbergen : containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North, of the Shetland Isles, and of the whale fishery / by John Laing.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Printed for Adam Black, Printed by Balfour and Clarke, 1818.
Edition
2nd ed., corr. and enl.
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Research Call Number
KBX (Laing, J. Voyage to Spitzbergen)
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