Henry Nottidge Moseley

Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger

Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of HMS Challenger Round the World, in the Yea

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Produktbeschreibung

The naturalist Henry Moseley (1844-91) vividly recounts the first global oceanographic expedition in this 1879 publication, illustrated with woodcuts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9781108074834
• ISBN-10: 1108074839
• Artikelnr.: 40722477

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Teneriffe, St Thomas, Bermuda
2. Azores, Madeira, Cape Verdes
3. St Paul's Rocks, and Fernando do Norhona
4. Bahia
5. Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island
6. Cape of Good Hope
7. Prince Edward Island, the Crozet Islands
8. Kerguelen's Land
9. Heard Island
10. Amongst the southern ice
11. Victoria, New South Wales
12. New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Matuku Island
13. Fiji Islands
14. New Hebrides, Cape York, Torres Strait
15. Aru, Ke, Amboina, Ternate
16. The Philippine Islands
17. China, New Guinea
18. The Admiralty Islands
19. Japan, the Sandwich Islands
20. Tahiti, Juan Fernandez
21. Chile, Magellan's Straits, Falkland Islands, Ascension
22. Life on the ocean surface and in the deep sea
List of books and papers relating to the expedition
Index.