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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815467903321

Titolo

A collection of documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland : comprising a translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen : a translation from Isaac de La Peyrere's Histoire du Groenland : and God's power and providence in the preservation of eigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-18873-X

1-317-18874-8

1-315-56453-X

1-282-89250-9

9786612892509

1-4094-1523-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Hakluyt Society, First Series ; ; v.18

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteAdam <1817-1879.>

La PeyrereIsaac de <1594-1676.>

MartensFriedrich <1635-1699.>

PellhamEdward <active 1630.>

Disciplina

998.1

Soggetti

Natural history - Norway - Spitsbergen Island

Spitsbergen Island (Norway) Description and travel Early works to 1800

Greenland Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Hakluyt Society"--cover.

First published by Ashgate Publishing.

Reprint of the 1855 ed.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Voyage into Spitzbergen -- pt. 2. Description of Spitzbergen -- pt. 3. -- pt. 4. Of the animals of Spitzbeugen.

Sommario/riassunto

The first text is from an English collection published in 1694; the second from the Relation du Groenland, Paris, 1663; the third is the text of Edward Pelham's tract, London, 1631. The supplementary material consists of the 1855 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1855.