Fourteen Thousand Dried Penguins
Patrick O’Brian, 9 November 1989
Last Voyages. Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh: The Original Narratives
edited by Philip Edwards.
Oxford, 268 pp., £25, November 1988,0 19 812894 0 Show More
edited by Philip Edwards.
Oxford, 268 pp., £25, November 1988,
The Nagle Journal: A Diary for the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841
edited by John Dann.
Weidenfeld, 402 pp., £18.95, March 1989,1 55584 223 2 Show More
edited by John Dann.
Weidenfeld, 402 pp., £18.95, March 1989,
Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
by Georg WilhelmSteller, edited by O.W. Frost, translated by Margritt Engel and O.W. Frost.
Stanford, 252 pp., $35, September 1988,0 8047 1446 0 Show More
by Georg WilhelmSteller, edited by O.W. Frost, translated by Margritt Engel and O.W. Frost.
Stanford, 252 pp., $35, September 1988,
“... things should be done. It starts with a self-contained introduction, then gives the whole text of Steller’s Journal of a Voyage with Bering, followed by intelligent notes and an impressive bibliography. Many people on hearing the name of Steller will cry ‘Steller’s eider!’ or ... ”
