The life of William Scoresby, M.A., D.D., F.R.S.S.L. and E, Corresponding member of the Institute of France, etc.
Scoresby-Jackson, Robert Edmund
"The object of the book is to place concisely before the reader the history of an individual of a singularly active and observant mind, who was ever careful to record and preserve his observations; who in early life enlarged the sphere of his researches by repeated voyages; was the first to make an accurate survey of the east coast of Greenland, and who penetrated further north than any of his contemporaries who devoted the latter half of his life to the moral instruction and amelioration of his fellow creatures a philosopher whose acute intellect embraced some of the subtlest subjects of physical science a sincere believer and earnest advocate of religious truth, and withal a zealous and indefatigable practical philanthropist."(extrait de la préface)</p>
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