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portada Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796: The Journal of Surgeon David Brown, Introduced and Edite
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
390
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
24.4 x 17.0 x 2.6 cm
ISBN13
9781776369539

Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796: The Journal of Surgeon David Brown, Introduced and Edite

Brown, David; Melville, John (Author) · John Melville · Paperback

Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796: The Journal of Surgeon David Brown, Introduced and Edite - Brown, David; Melville, John

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Synopsis "Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796: The Journal of Surgeon David Brown, Introduced and Edite"

Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796 presents the first publication of the remarkable journal of David Brown, surgeon aboard the whaling transports Britannia and Speedy during their global voyages under Captain Thomas Melvill. Long preserved in handwritten manuscript form in the State Library of New South Wales, Brown's account opens an important window into the world of the late eighteenth century and the early British Southern Whale Fishery.Written in engaging and vivid prose, the journal goes far beyond a whaling logbook. Brown describes newly encountered landscapes, the peoples of South America and Australia, and the natural history of regions still little known to European readers of his time. His observations range from the fledgling settlement at Sydney Cove, to Lima and its social customs, and to the uninhabited Galápagos Islands - decades before Darwin's arrival.These voyages unfolded against the backdrop of the French Revolutionary Wars, and Brown's narrative captures the risks of global travel in a time of maritime conflict. His journal offers not only an account of the early Pacific and Atlantic whaling enterprise but also a rare civilian perspective on navigating the hazards of wartime seas.Alongside these travel accounts, Brown provides detailed reflections on the flora and fauna of the regions visited, contemporary philosophical and religious ideas, whaling practices, and shipboard medicine. He further offers valuable contemporary insights into South American mining, labour, and metallurgy in the decades preceding the region's major political and economic transformations. His vivid descriptions of the perilous enterprise of whaling in both the Southern and Northern Whale Fisheries add depth and colour to this now dimly remembered era.Editor John Melville, a descendant of Captain Melvill, provides careful transcription, a substantial modern introduction, extensive footnotes, and supplementary indexes that illuminate Brown's sources, references, and world. This edition rescues from obscurity one of the earliest and most insightful firsthand narratives of the British whaling age.

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