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...
Collections in Various Departments of Literature Detached from v. 2 of Varieties of literature from foreign literary journals and original mss. London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1795.
Full title: A journey into Siberia, made by order of the king of France. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, the present state of their empire; with the natural history, and geographical description of their country,...
London : Nisbet, [1881?] 432 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. : 20 cm.
The Giant of the North, published around 1881, is a tale about an Eskimo man who serves as a guide to a group of Englishmen as they search for the North Pole
Originally published in Barron's National Financial Weekly, v. III, no. 32, Aug. 6, 1923; the author questions why Alaska's population and industry had not grown in proportion to its vast resources
extracted from the description of Kamtchatka by Professor Krashennicoff, printed at Petersburg, in two volumes, 4to. in 1759; and tr. and communicated by the Rev. D. Dumaresque, D.D. chaplain to the English factory at...