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A voyage to Spitzbergen

Name: A voyage to Spitzbergen
Author: John (Surgeon) Laing

by John (Surgeon) Laing

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A voyage to Spitzbergen containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fishery

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Bryan Ness, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2016-02-05

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Whaling Svalbard (Norway) -- Description and travel Animals -- Arctic regions Shetland (Scotland) -- Description and travel

About the author

John (Surgeon) Laing

A ship’s surgeon turned travel writer, he is remembered for a vivid early-19th-century account of the Arctic and the Shetland Islands. His writing blends firsthand observation with natural history, giving modern listeners a lively window into northern seas and landscapes.

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