An Account of the Arctic Regions : With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Remarks on the celebrated question, of the existence of a sea-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the north; with an account of the progress of discovery in the Northern Regions; 2. Descriptive account of some of the Polar countries; 3. Hydrographical survey of the Greenland Sea; 4. An account of the Greenland or Polar ice; 5. Observations on the atmospherology of the Arctic regions; particularly relating to Spitzbergen and the adjacent Greenland Sea; 6. A sketch of the zoology of the Arctic regions; Appendices.