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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A voyage to Spitzbergen
Surgeon Laing
128 pages~2 hr 33 min read12 chapters$4.99
A ship's surgeon sails into the Arctic ice off Spitzbergen and lives to describe it. John Laing records the whaling grounds, the towering glaciers, and the strange bright life of the far north. A firsthand glimpse of the polar seas in the age of sail. Follow the whalers into the ice at the top of the world.
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12 chapters
- 1A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN; CONTAINING AN Account of that Country, OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE NORTH; OF THE SHETLAND ISLES; AND OF THE WHALE FISHERY.
- 2ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN.
- 3APPENDIX.
- 4No. I.
- 5No. II.
- 6No. III.
- 7No. IV.
- 8No. V.
- 9No. VI.
- 10Extracts from Reviews in Recommendation of this Work.
- 11FOOTNOTES:
- 12Transcriber’s Notes
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