This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. Dur

William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he

This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. These lengthy journals combine s

Encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, William Scoresby expanded the logs of his Arctic whaling voyages into lengthy journals. His scientific records, comments on soci