Author: Alexander Dallas BachePublisher:
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Category : Gulf Stream
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
On the Tides of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States, the Gulf Stream, and the Earthquake Waves of December, 1854
Author: Alexander Dallas BachePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gulf Stream
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
On the Tides of the Atlantic & Pacific Coasts of the United States, the Gulf Stream & the Earthquake Waves of Dec. 1854
Author: Alexander Dallas BachePublisher:
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Category : Tides
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes list of members.
Catalogue. [With] Index to the subject-matter of the works contained in the Catalogue
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Author: Royal statistical society librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Statistical Society ...
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalog of the Library of the Statistical Society
Author: Statistical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
At Sea with the Scientifics
Author: Joseph MatkinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824814243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
When HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth in 1872, a young assistant ship's steward, Joseph Matkin, was among the crew. Throughout the three-and-a-half-year voyage, Matkin maintained a journal from which he composed the many letters he sent home to his family in England. In his letters he commented on oceanographic operations, reported on shipboard events of special concern to the crew, and discussed at length the history, geography, and peoples of the many exotic and remote ports at which the ship called on its famous circumnavigation of the globe. The Challenger expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle for its contributions to nineteenth-century science. The massive quantity of specimens and information acquired was written up in the fity-volume series of Challenger Reports, and personal accounts were published by officers and scientists. No ocean voyage had ever been so well documented. Yet no account of the seaman's life "below decks" was known to exist until the early 1980s, when two substantial collections of Matkin's letters surfaced. The letters are unique in their perspective and fascinating for their depth and literacy. Matkin, the son of a printer, was well aware of the significance of the voyage and strove to present a learned account in a proper style. His letters convey a wealth of detail about shipboard logistics, the crew's attitudes toward scientific operations, and officer-scientist-crew relations. Unwittingly, Matkin also illuminates himself and the middle-class society of which he was a part. Matkin's letters, published here for the first time, bring freshness and immediacy to this great Victorian scientific enterprise. Philip F. Rehbock has edited and annotated the letters, providing a particularly readable work of travel literature for anyone interested in oceanography, voyaging, maritime social history, and naval affairs.