Engelse boeken: The Voyage of the Challenger by Eric Linklater

Aangeboden: The Voyage of the Challenger by Eric Linklater Prijs: T.e.a.b. THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER by Eric Linklater Boek met gele kaft met illustratie met zwarte letteropdruk in goede conditie; 288 pagina's met meer dan 200 kleuren- en zwart/wit foto's, tekeningen, illustraties enz.; In 1872 HMS CHALLENGER sailed from Portsmouth on a journey that was to circumnativgate the world, covering over 68,000 nautical miles and lasting a thousand days. She was a three-masted corvette with auxiliary steam, and as well as a crew of over two hundred she carried a team of scientists led by Professor Wyville Thomson. The voyage of the CHALLENGER was a pioneer expedition of immense importance. Sponsored by the British Government and organised by the Royal Society in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, its ambitious aim was to chart the depths, movement and ceontents of the seas, to scour the oceans for marine life, minerals, and clues to c limact ic phenomena. The naturalists on board, Henry Moseley and John Murray, were observant recorders of life ashore as well as at sea, and their personal journals provide a vivid picture of their remote ports of call - the bleak penguin rookeries in the Antarctic, East Indian coral and spice islands, the hostile tribes New Guinea, and a meeting with the Mikado in Japan. 'Much infortiiation of a technical and specialist order made the voyage of the Challenger an unqualified success from the scientitic point of view. What Linklater has done is to go back beyond the facts to the men who found them, and in recreating that company of personalities on board that packed little ship ... he has made the voyage of the Challenger an equally unqualified success from the point of view of an ordinary human being' The Scotsman 'Sumptuous illustrations ... excellent text' The Observer An English graduate of Aberdeen University, Eric Linklat e r has b een intermittently a soldier and for longer periods a most prolific writer. He was assistant editor of The Times of India from 1925-7 and Lord Rector of Aberdeen University from 1945-8. His previous publications include: Poet's Pub, Juan in America, Magnus Merriman and Private Angelo. CONTENTS List of colour plates Acknowledgments 1 Edinburgh and the Navy 2 Ship's Company 3 Atlantic isles, Atlantic depths 4 Noddies, Boobies, and Brazil 5 The Penguins of Tristan da Cunha 6 Shore-leave at Cape Town 7 In the Roaring P'orties 8 Elephant Seals and Kerguelen Cabbage 9 An archipelago of glittering ice 10 A starfish and a storm 11 From Tonga to Fiji 12 The people of Cape York 13 For sale: Birds of Paradise 14 Mindanao and Zamboanga 15 New Guinea and the wood-carvers 16 The pleasures of Japan 17 Honolulu and the goddess Pele 18 Thir ty days to Tahiti 19 The castaways of Juan Fernandez 20 The firths of Patagonia 21 From the Falklands to Spithead Postscript: Achievements of the voyage Bibliography List and sources of monochrome illustrations Index

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