Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship, "Challenger" Voyages Over Many Seas, Scenes in Many Lands
The important objects for which hms. Challenger was placed at the disposal of a scientific staff under the direction of Professor Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, the gratifying results obtained by the full investigation of the bed of the ocean, and the vast amount of information gathered by visits to distant lands very rarely explored, render the cruise of the Challenger highly interesting and instructive to the British public.
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