William Gordon Burn Murdoch, W. S. Bruce

From Edinburgh to the Antarctic

An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892 93

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1894, an account and sketches of a whaling expedition of 1892-3 by the on-board artist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781108048248
• ISBN-10: 1108048242
• Artikelnr.: 35456192

Inhaltsangabe

1. Written in the North-East trades, recalling our departure from Edinburgh and the University Hall
2. In Dundee we sign articles as assistant-surgeon on the barque Balaena, bound for the Antarctic and the adjacent seas
3. A short account of the origin and objects of the Dundee Antarctic expedition
4. Further notes during the bad weather
5. Fine weather at sea
6. Old horse day
7. An account of how two boys came to stow away in the Balaena, written by one of them
8. We run into the North-East trades
9. We cross the Line
10. A tropical storm
11. Albatross fishing
12. Changeable weather
13. The Falkland Islands
14. Leave the Falklands
15. Christmas Eve in the Antarctic ice
16. Christmas Day
17. The pack-ice that barred the progress of Ross's sailing vessels
18. Off to the North again
19. By W. S. Bruce, naturalist on the Balaena.