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Memorials of the Sea: My Father

Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby

William Scoresby author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Jun '19

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An 1851 account of William Scoresby, a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, written by his son.

This account, published in 1851, of William Scoresby (1760–1829), a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, was written by his son as one of his 'Memorials of the Sea'. William, Jr, a scientist and later a clergyman, had begun his career on his father's ships.Son of an Arctic whaler, William Scoresby (1789–1857) made the first of many voyages to northern latitudes when he was just ten years old. Later a scientist and clergyman, he wrote on a wide range of topics, and his observations on the Arctic prompted further exploration of the region. He published some of his accounts under the generic title 'Memorials of the Sea' (his 1835 notes on murder at sea and on the fate of the Franklin expedition have also been reissued in this series). In this 1851 book, Scoresby recounts the life of his father, also William (1760–1829), from his earliest days to his later life as a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, at a time when the industry gave rise to extreme danger but also offered enormous financial rewards. William, Jr's biography is also available in the Cambridge Library Collection.

ISBN: 9781108081795

Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: 300g

246 pages