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Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Eleanor Mathews

Editorial

David R. Godine Publisher

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

353

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1x15.5x3.6 cm

Peso

0.68 kg.

ISBN

9781567922462

ISBN13

9781567922462

Categorías

Regiones polares
Biografía: aventureros y exploradores
Historia de otras zonas y regiones geográficas

Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship (en Inglés)

Eleanor Mathews (Autor) · David R. Godine Publisher · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship (en Inglés)"

In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend a year on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to the Antarctic. During the voyage, Murphy not only collected specimens and took photographs, developing them in seawater, but kept a journal that was later published and became a bestseller. Now, Eleanor Mathews, his granddaughter, has now taken Murphy's diary and supplementing it with his own original photographs, to present this fascinating story for modern readers. As a portrait of seafaring life, of the whaling industry still under sail, and an account of a natural history expedition, it is a unique window into a vanished time.