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At Sea With the Scientifics

At Sea With the Scientifics The Challenger Letters of Joseph Matkin

Hardback (30 Mar 1993)

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Matkin was a young assistant ship's steward on HMS Challenger when it sailed from Portsmith in 1872 for a three-and-a-half-year voyage of scientific exploration; he kept a journal, from which he wrote letters home. The letters, discovered in the early 1980s, provide an intimate look at life aboard; combined with the massive official reports, and th

Book information

ISBN: 9780824814243
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 910.41092
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 415
Weight: 716g
Height: 236mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 30mm