No Man's LandCUP Archive, 1982 A play about fiction and reality, in which an invited guest threatens to disrupt the self-contained refuge of his host. |
Contenido
CHAPTER PAGE I Introductory | 1 |
How Spitsbergen was discovered II | 11 |
Walrus hunting and tentative expeditions | 20 |
The first hunting expedition to Spitsbergen | 33 |
The beginning of the Spitsbergen whalefishery | 38 |
The troubles in 1613 | 51 |
The events of 1614 | 65 |
VIII The method of the Bay fishery | 82 |
Smeerenburgs culmination | 182 |
The decline of English whaling | 191 |
Whalers adventures | 201 |
Incidents of war and other events in Spitsbergen waters | 215 |
Russian trappers in Spitsbergen | 233 |
Tschitschagofs expeditions | 263 |
National expeditions to Spitsbergen | 277 |
List of the principal voyages to Spitsbergen recorded from 1847 to 1900 | 301 |
Troubles with the Dutch in 1617 | 94 |
Troubles at Spitsbergen in 1618 | 106 |
Progress of the whaling industry at Spitsbergen | 123 |
The final settlement of the Spitsbergen fishery | 135 |
The first wintering in Spitsbergen | 146 |
The culmination of the Bay fishery | 165 |
Bibliography of the history and geography of Spitsbergen | 305 |
The cartography of Spitsbergen | 328 |
Chronological list of maps of Spitsbergen | 342 |
History of Spitsbergen nomenclature before the nineteenth century | 347 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Referencias a este libro
Skeletal Remains at the Russian Settlement at Russekeila in West Spitsbergen Hans Christiansson Vista de fragmentos - 1967 |
An Arctic Safari with Camera and Rifle in the Land of the Midnight Sun Richard L. Sutton Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |