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30 mar 2015 · Weddell, James,1787-1834. Publication date. 1827. Topics. Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), Antarctic Ocean. Publisher. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Collection. biodiversity.
James Weddell (1787–1834) a self-taught navigator, started his sailing career aged 9 and later led several voyages towards the Antarctic. This book, first published in 1825, is his account of the voyage of the Jane, which went on a sealing trip to the Falklands and beyond, but turned back before reaching Antarctica itself.
The collection comprises of material relating to Weddell's voyages south including the British Sealing Voyage, 1820-1821 and the British Sealing and Exploratory Voyage, 1822-1824, (both led by Weddell), correspondence by Weddell and biographical notes on him and the Weddell family.
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DFB. WEDDELL, JAMES. 1787 - 1834 from United States (also Belgium) sealer and explorer, appears to have been born either in Ostend, Belgium or Massachusetts, the son of an upholsterer by trade, who migrated from his native Lanarkshire to London and his wife Sarah, née Pease.
James Weddell FRSE (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
Books. A Voyage Towards the South Pole: Performed in the Years 1822-'24. Containing ... a Visit to Tierra Del Fuego, with a Particular Account of the Inhabitants ... James Weddell. Longman,...
